Article ID: 279140
Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q279140
SYMPTOMS
When you call the ALINES function with an empty string, Visual FoxPro 6.0 increments the number of memory handles by one.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.
For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why
194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed
To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
Run the following code from a program (.prg) file:
Local lni
For lni = 1 to 10
local array laTest[1]
=alines(laTest, '')
_Calcmem = lni && store counter to survive clear all
Clear all
?SYS(1011), int(_calcmem)
Local lni
lni = _calcmem
Endfor
RETURN
After the code runs, two numbers appear. The first column indicates the memory handles as reported by SYS(1011). The second number indicates the iteration of the loop. Note that Visual FoxPro adds one handle per iteration.
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