I'm working with the SCCText.prg that ships with FoxPro. It is nothing more than PRG.

However, it inidcates that it returns a value.

I assumed there was a way to call it so that you could capture that value.

Kind of silly of VFP to ship with code that cannot even be used as advertised.


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>Only a function call can return a value. See http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/difference-between-function-and-procedure-statements
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>lnReturn = Blah('SomeString'  )
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>>I have a prg that receives parameters and returns a value. It does not have "Procedure" line at the top, it's just code in a prg.
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>>The last line of the file returns a value with RETURN lnReturn
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>>So, how do you call a PRG in a way that you can capture the return value?
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>>I've tried stuff like:
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>>Do Blah.prg with 'SomeString' to lnReturn
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>>and other goofy attempts, but none have worked.
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>>What to do?