> 'files' will be immediately reassigned. 'f_flags' and 'file' will be > overwritten in the if{} or seq_show() directly exits with an error. > so we don't need to consume CPU resources to initialize them. How do you think about to reduce the scope for four local variables in this function implementation? https://refactoring.com/catalog/reduceScopeOfVariable.html Regards, Markus