Hi Fred.

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

Ah yes, you are right. I had forgotten about that < s >. You motivated me to go look at the help file and I found this:

Because such arrays must be in scope after the method call, LOCAL and PRIVATE arrays are invalid in these declarations. You must use either a PUBLIC or a member array.

So, for all practical purposes, you really need to return the array in an object anyway, don't you? I bet you are like me - the more times you see the word PUBLIC in the code, the higher your rate goes < vbg >.