Makes sense. I wanted to be sure that I am not missing something that would get me later. Since I do want to add a parameter to a list of LPARAMETERs and to be able to read this parameter in the calling procedure.
Thank you.
>@ passes the variable by reference, IOW TestFunct writes directly into lVar2 of main program
>
>>Hi,
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>>Specifically I mean, as far as the title, what is the purpose of the "L" in LPARAMETERS. I understand it means "local" but the following example shows that it is not quite local:
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>>LOCAL lVar1, lVar2
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>>STORE 1 TO lVar1, lVar2
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>>=TestFunct( lVar1, @lVar2 )
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>>? lVar1, lVar2
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>>FUNCTION TestFunct
>>LPARAMETERS lVar1, lVar2
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>>lVar2 = 122
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>>RETURN
>>
>>
>>Or does it mean that the "@" overrides the L in LPARAMETERS?
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