Variable going out of scope

[pdbowling]

Hello, Everyone.

I have a variable that I am setting from a recordset.
It is going out of scope after I close the recordset, and I don't understand why.
I am setting a variable to the recordset value in order to avoid just this situation. Why would the variable go out of scope? Is java not strongly typed? It seems to be setting the variable as a reference.

  var bill=icurs("billto") 

  Write("<br>" + icurs("billto") +"<br>")
  Write("<br>" + bill +"<br>")


  Write("<br>1 Hello<br>")
  Write("<br>" + bill +"<br>")
  Write("<br>1 Goodbye<br>")

  icurs.close()

  Write("<br>2 Hello<br>")
  Write("<br>" + bill +"<br>")
  Write("<br>2 Goodbye<br>")

This is the output.

ABC
ABC

1 Hello
ABC
1 Goodbye

2 Hello

2 Goodbye

Is there a different declaration to force 'by value'?

 

[xwb]

Try

var bill=icurs("billto") + "";

 

[jpadie]

are you sure this is javascript? js normally has line terminators, and this has none.

if it is js then you have probably retyped your code in to the code box here. don't do that. cut and paste the precise code you are using to be certain there are no transposition errors or omissions.

also post the icurs class. it is possible that the close method (or a method in close) is altering the global variable 'bill'.