>Hi all,
>
>This should be fairly "basic" but have never figured it out...I know how to pass a variable or array to a function by reference (by prefacing with @) but in this case I want to pass an object to a method and force it to pass by "value" i.e. make a copy
>
>loSomeObject=CREATE("empty")
>ADDPROPERTY(loSomeObject,"FileName","C:\temp\test.doc")
>
>loFileWhizBang.OutputFile(loSomeObject)
>
>*** and method Outputfile ***
>
>LPARAMETERS toFileObject
>
>* strip the path off for some use
>toFileObject.FileName = JUSTFNAME(toFileObject.FileName)
>
>I *usually* load everything into local vars when doing things like this but trying to "tighten up" some code, I decided to do the alteration on the object property not realizing that it was not a LOCAL copy. So I instead tried to pass the object in a way that forces toFileObject to a local value. Could not figure and help files did not help.
>
>Any way to do it?

Per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-CA/library/b2fcckcf(v=vs.80).aspx , "...Visual FoxPro always passes objects by reference."

As Thomas points out, working around that may be more trouble than it's worth.