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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting In bash getting weird output from function ? Post 302417183 by boy18nj on Wednesday 28th of April 2010 09:23:29 PM
Old 04-28-2010
Scott, Thank you. You are the real expert. As I am a java programmer, I thought it will work this way-

Code:
result=$(times)

It will call times function and the return value will go in variable result. But no, the control went to result. So this result will be used to call the function.Smilie
 

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MAXDB_FREE_RESULT(3)							 1						      MAXDB_FREE_RESULT(3)

maxdb_free_result - Frees the memory associated with a result

       Procedural style

SYNOPSIS
void maxdb_free_result (resource $result) DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style void maxdb_result::free (void ) The maxdb_free_result(3) function frees the memory associated with the result represented by the $result parameter, which was allocated by maxdb_query(3), maxdb_store_result(3) or maxdb_use_result(3). Note You should always free your result with maxdb_free_result(3), when your result resource is not needed anymore. RETURN VALUES
This function doesn't return any value. SEE ALSO
maxdb_query(3), maxdb_stmt_store_result(3), maxdb_store_result(3), maxdb_use_result(3). PHP Documentation Group MAXDB_FREE_RESULT(3)
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