>>Hi Gang!
>>
>>My fellow colleague at work has this problem. He has this in some code
>>
>>

>>PROCEDURE getArrayElement
>>      PARAMETERS lnElement
>>      pcTheData = laWarnLbl[lnElement]
>>      RETURN pcTheData
>>ENDPROC
>>

>>
>>The above snippet of code is giving me the “invalid subscript reference” error on the “pcTheData = laWarnLbl[lnElement] line.
>>
>>The value of lnElement at this point is 1.
>>
>>And laWrnLbl is dimensioned to 6.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>If you have a field called lnElement in the active table, and it has a value greater than 6, you will get this error. I strongly advise you to alter this routine so that it uses LPARAMETERS. It should receive the array as a parameter too. It should declare pcTheData LOCAL or not even use pcTheData at all. I'd write it this way.
>
>

getArrayElement.prg
>LPARAMETERS lnElement,taArray
>EXTERNAL ARRAY taArray && prevents compiler error.
>RETURN taArray[m.lnElement]

>
>and I'd call it like this
>

?GetArrayElement(5,@laWarnLbl)

This will probably answer Dimitry's question, but I have another question - why call a one-line procedure?