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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using grep in a test/if statement Post 302177378 by cbo0485 on Thursday 20th of March 2008 10:22:32 PM
Old 03-20-2008
Thanks for all your help. Got it the first way, tomorrow I'll try it the second way b/c these files can get quite big.

Thanks again, I'm sure i'll be on here more often now.
 

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mssql_free_statement - Free statement memory

SYNOPSIS
bool mssql_free_statement (resource $stmt) DESCRIPTION
mssql_free_statement(3) only needs to be called if you are worried about using too much memory while your script is running. All statement memory will automatically be freed when the script ends. You may call mssql_free_statement(3) with the statement identifier as an argument and the associated statement memory will be freed. PARAMETERS
o $stmt - Statement resource, obtained with mssql_init(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 mssql_free_statement(3) example <?php // Create a new statement $stmt = mssql_init('test'); // Bind values here and execute the statement // once we're done, we clear it from the memory // using mssql_free_statement like so: mssql_free_statement($stmt); ?> SEE ALSO
mssql_bind(3), mssql_execute(3), mssql_init(3), mssql_free_result(3). PHP Documentation Group MSSQL_FREE_STATEMENT(3)
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