Such arrays must be in scope after the method call. Because of that you have to use eaither use PUBLIC array (not recomended) or property array and return it by reference.

RETURN @This.aNewArray

>OOPS!!! Hit the wrong key!!! Ignore thre previous!!!! we should try this again...
>
>In the myapp.checker(), I will have a string and then pass the string to the 'array' maker, strip out all the A's, and put everything left into an array, and then return the array back to myapp.checker : laFinal.
>
>

> *-- myapp.checker
> LOCAL laFinal[1], lcString
> DIMENSION laFinal[1]
> laFinal[1] = ""
> lcString = "ABBBACCCADDD"
>laFinal = newobj.convert(lcString)
>
>
> *-- myapp.convert
> LPARAMETER lcData
> LOCAL laNewArray, lnCount, lnItemLine
> DIMENSION laNewArray[1]
> STORE 0 TO lnItemLine, lnCount
> lnCount = OCCURS("A", lcData)
> *-- Checked this, lnCount = 3
> *-- now, here is some code to take out extra stuff, like line feeds, etc..
> *-- Okay, all that will be left in lcData is letters....
> FOR lnWork = 1 TO lnCount
>  *-- put the data into an array, take out each "A", etc...
>  lnItemLine = lnItemLine + 1
>  DIMENSION laNewArray[lnItemLine]
>  *-- put the line data into array row....
> NEXT
> *-- Now, at this point I have and can see laNewArray with three items:
> *-- laNewArray[1] = "BBB"
> *-- laNewArray[2] = "CCC"
> *-- laNewArray[3] = "DDD"
> *-- BUT, now I want to send it back...
> RETURN @laNewArray
>
>

>
>I am missing something because as soon as the trace returns to the myapp.checker, I get
>"laNewArray is not an array"... What am I missing??
>
>TIA
>
>Ric