>>>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?

1 - standardization, 2 - expansion, 3 - a single point of maintenance, 4 - readability.