Hi Mike,

You misunderstood me. I suggested that you make a copy of the patameter in the function/method and than work with that copy.

junk1.prg
Parameters tuParameter
*Make a copy of a parameter
local luParameter
luParameter = tuParameter
*Convert the string to an array to do some processing...
local array laArray[1,1]
laArray[1,1]="Something else"
dimension <b>luParameter[1,1]</b>
=acopy(laArray,<b>luParameter</b>)
*Do the processing using <b>luParameter</b> 
...

>Yeah, I thought of that too. I was just curious if I was missing something. I believe its common practice to have a function / method remember initial settings, make whatever changes are desired and restore the initial settings.
>
>Passing in a copy of the parameter to the function isn't as clean.
>
>>You can work with a copy of a parameter instead of parameter itself. This way you don't have to restore anything.
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