Jethro commented on a Page, ISUP *Updated* (for a bot)  -  Aug 04, 2011

It is not redundant, Savage_CL. The local variable is set so that the buffer can be stored temporarily for the sockread to read up upon. Without the local variable, the buffer will be stored as a global variable, which occupies a space and is not needed at the end of the task.

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