FLAG

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:19:20PM +0800, irinchiang@justeducation.com wrote: : : Hi calling out to all programmers: : : I heard that there is a term used by most programmers called "FLAG" . : Anyone aware of that?? Its a kinda "Indicator" eg. I have a table with : "YES" column equal to "1" and "NO" column equal to "0". Does anyone : know of any useful links with regards to that?? A "flag" is just something (a variable, a memory location, etc.) that stores some binary-ish information (e.g. true/false, yes/no, 1/0). It is a fairly general term and is used all over the place in the computing world. Some programmers have extended the meaning of "flag" to include more than binary data, e.g. a set or a range of values. Hi all, Well, so is there any online resource whereby I can read up on "FLAG" ???Or any idea how should I go about creating the memory location to store the binary-ish information (e.g. true/false, yes/no, 1/0)? Hope to get some help soon...thnx. Irin.