Subject Re: DDE help From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in> Date Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:33:37 +0530 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started > You are still not passing values to a running program.  You write a new > ..BAT file every 30 minutes (keeping the same name as before) and then > run it once.  This places data in a separate holding file. Yes I am not passing parameters to a running program. >> So it all depends what type of data needs to be processed and format. >> Naturally Arrays cannot be passed as parameters (I presume). > > Arrays can certainly be passed as parameters.  It is actually the way > for a function to return more than one value.  The receiving program (or > function) must just know how to deal with the array.  As an example, > preview.wfm in the dUFLP has provision for receiving an AssocArray as a > parameter. > > All the elements of an array need not be of the same type.  An array can > hold numeric values, character strings, objects and other arrays all at > the same time as long as the receiving program or function knows what to > do with the contents of each element. Even Across different types of programmes? Within dBase it can be done, I have passed objects as parameters. But from dBase to Commence or reverse also I never had a need and hence cannot say. Regards Akshat