Oh, but you can return an array, starting with VFP7:

ox = CREATEOBJECT("retarray")
z = ox.ra()
?z[3], ALEN(z,1)   && Three, 5

DEFINE CLASS retarray as Session
DIMENSION arret[5]
FUNCTION ra
  this.arret[1]="One"
  this.arret[2]="Two"
  this.arret[3]="Three"
  this.arret[4]="Four"
  this.arret[5]="Five"
  RETURN @this.arret
ENDFUNC
ENDDEFINE

>I'm new to VFP7 and am trying to return an array from a form and have not been able to do so. Can anyone help -- THANKS
>
>That's because you can't return an array < s >. But you can pass back an object that has an array property. My class libraries have a class called xParameters that I use for just this purpose:
>
>

>DEFINE CLASS xparameters AS custom
>Name = "xparameters"
>DIMENSION aparameters[1]
>
>PROCEDURE Init
>LPARAMETERS taParameters
>
>*** Copy array passed by reference, before it goes out of scope
>ACOPY( taParameters, THIS.aParameters )
>ENDPROC
>ENDDEFINE
>

>
>To use it, you just use code like this:
>
>

>RETURN CREATEOBJECT( 'xParameters', @laMyArray )
>