Posted by McKirahan on 11/11/59 11:33

"Highlander" <tron9901@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> McKirahan wrote:
> > "Highlander" <tron9901@msn.com> wrote in message
> > news:1133482432.710124.52790@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Since I've seen the "set variable = nothing" in many scripts, and have
> > > been told that this is done to release memory, I assumed that it
needed
> > > to be done with every variable. If this isn't the case, what's the
> > > criteria for when it should be used for a given variable?
> >
> > Objects are "Set" and may be assigned to "Nothing" when through.
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> > ...
> > Set FSO = Nothing
>
> I did this with every object that was "Dimmed". So you're saying that I
> only need to take every object that was "Set" and assign them to
> "Nothing" when through?
>

Exactly.

http://ns7.webmasters.com/caspdoc/html/vbscript_set_statement.htm

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