>I am trying to get a value to be returned to the calling program. I can not get the return value. I have done this before, but I do not know what I am doing wrong?
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>This is the calling program:
>lnFind = space(10)
>lnExec = SQLEXEC(lnConn,"Exec sp_seek_ssfno '128746586',?lnFind")
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>This is the stored procedure:
>CREATE PROCEDURE sp_seek_ssfno
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>@lcSSfno CHAR(10),
>@lnRet CHAR(10) output
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> AS
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>
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>SELECT @lnRet = (select ssfno from tranhdr where RTRIM(LTRIM(ssfno)) = RTRIM(LTRIM(@lcSSfno)))
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>What am I not doing.

Yo have to pass your variable by reference

lnExec = SQLEXEC(lnConn,[Exec sp_seek_ssfno '128746586',?@lnFind])