SHARED

The SHARED statement allows variables to be passed automatically to any SUB or FUNCTION procedure.

Syntax

DIM SHARED Qt AS STRING * 1

• DIMensioned variables are shared with all procedures in the program module.
• When used with DIM in the main module, it eliminates the need to pass a parameter variable to a SUB or FUNCTION.
• Use COMMON SHARED to share a list of variable values with sub-procedures or other modules. See also: COMMON
• SHARED (without DIM) can share a list of variables inside of SUB or FUNCTION procedures with the main module only.

Note: SHARED variables in sub-procedures will not be passed to other sub-procedures, only the main module.

Example 1: Defining variable types with AS or type suffixes.

DIM SHARED Qt AS STRING * 1, price AS DOUBLE, ID AS INTEGER DIM SHARED Q$, prices#, IDs%

Example 2: The DIR$ function returns a filename or a list when more than one exist. The file spec can use a path and/or wildcards.

FOR i = 1 TO 2 LINE INPUT "Enter a file spec: ", spec$ file$ = DIR$(spec$) 'use a file spec ONCE to find the last file name listed PRINT DIRCount%, file$, 'function can return the file count using SHARED variable DO K$ = INPUT$(1) file$ = DIR$("") 'use an empty string parameter to return a list of files! PRINT file$, LOOP UNTIL LEN(file$) = 0 'file list ends with an empty string NEXT END FUNCTION DIR$ (spec$) CONST TmpFile$ = "DIR$INF0.INF", ListMAX% = 500 'change maximum to suit your needs SHARED DIRCount% 'returns file count if desired STATIC Ready%, Index%, DirList$() IF NOT Ready% THEN REDIM DirList$(ListMax%): Ready% = -1 'DIM array first use IF spec$ > "" THEN 'get file names when a spec is given SHELL _HIDE "DIR " + spec$ + " /b > " + TmpFile$ Index% = 0: DirList$(Index%) = "": ff% = FREEFILE OPEN TmpFile$ FOR APPEND AS #ff% size& = LOF(ff%) CLOSE #ff% IF size& = 0 THEN KILL TmpFile$: EXIT FUNCTION OPEN TmpFile$ FOR INPUT AS #ff% DO WHILE NOT EOF(ff%) AND Index% < ListMAX% Index% = Index% + 1 LINE INPUT #ff%, DirList$(Index%) LOOP DIRCount% = Index% 'SHARED variable can return the file count CLOSE #ff% KILL TmpFile$ ELSE IF Index% > 0 THEN Index% = Index% - 1 'no spec sends next file name END IF DIR$ = DirList$(Index%) END FUNCTION

Code by Ted Weissgerber

Explanation: The SHARED variable value DIRcount% can tell the main program how many files were found using a wildcard spec.

See also

• DIM, REDIM
• COMMON, COMMON SHARED

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