>To All:
>IS there a way in VFP to return multiple values from a User Defined Function? I don't want to use an Array, then I have to pass by reference and I am trying to avoid that. I have thought about casting and concatenating the values to a single string then returning that and parsing it when needed but I know there has to be a 'cleaner' way to accomplish this.

Since you didn't say whether the values to return are in any way connected to parameters, or does the routine need parameters at all, here's a version of the previous solutions which returns an object:

oReturn=myudf()
?oReturn.value1
?oReturn.value2

procedure myudf
oRet=createobject("empty")
AddProperty(oRet, "value1","first value")
AddProperty(oRet, "value2",datetime())
return oRet