Subject Re: Control passing back and fro in a form sub routine From Bruce Beacham <bbeacham@no-plm-lowman.co.uk> Date Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:44:26 +0100 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Define a private variable in the calling function, and in the called function that variable is available (as long as you don't define a further variable with the same name) for the called function to change its value. I find that gives more trouble than it's worth.   Far better to pass a variable in a function call and pass back a return value (which can be an array containing multiple return values, or an assocarray with keys, or even a plain object with properties attached to it, as Mervyn points out).    The called function is thereby much more self-contained and versatile. Bruce Beacham On 26/07/2023 11:16, Akshat Kapoor wrote: > I have lost touch (all thanks to reduced programming time) but there > used to 2 methods of passing value. > > One of them used to be reference. You change the value in function and > the host value is also changed. > > In C it used to be something like adding & to the memory variable and > the memory address would be passed. > > I do not remember using something similar in dbase. > > Regards > Akshat