>I didn't notice this in the "New....." section or the "Enhancements..." section of the VFP7 documentation, nor does the RETURN Command write-up mention it, so I thought I'd mention it here as it seems quite important to me.
>
>An array can be specified as eExpression of a RETURN command provided that:
>1) the array was passed by reference into the function in the first place;
>2) the array is still in scope when the RETURN executes.
>
>Found this reading "What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0" from Hentzenwerkes.

Actually, Jim, your #1 is wrong. Don't pass the array to the function. #2 is the key point and is why this is really most appropriate to methods rather than functions. Otherwise, the code you have to write follows some bad practices.

Tamar