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I know how to call a finction and pass a parameter to it, but I don;t
understand how to take the resulting output of the function and use it from
the subroutine that called the function

Something like

I have a number
I send the number to a fumction that divides it by 2
I then can refer to the quotient as a variable in my original subroutine.
Nov 20 '05
14 1940
Hi Arne,

From which country are you, Herfried saw the same as me, "Funktion" while it
is normaly in the program languages Function.

That was the only LOL about it, I think you made consequent typos by typing
it in the message.

(It is not impossible it is in the German language with a K, I do not know
that, in Dutch it is official with C however often written with a K)

:-)

Cor
Nov 20 '05 #11
* "Cor Ligthert" <no**********@p lanet.nl> scripsit:
From which country are you, Herfried saw the same as me, "Funktion" while it
is normaly in the program languages Function.

That was the only LOL about it, I think you made consequent typos by typing
it in the message.

(It is not impossible it is in the German language with a K, I do not know
that, in Dutch it is official with C however often written with a K)


AFAIK, Arne is from Germany, and in German it's "Funktion". I assume
Arne uses C# more than he uses VB.NET, so he doesn't know how to spell
'Function' :-).

SCNR

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
Nov 20 '05 #12
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
* "Cor Ligthert" <no**********@p lanet.nl> scripsit:
From which country are you, Herfried saw the same as me, "Funktion" while it
is normaly in the program languages Function.

That was the only LOL about it, I think you made consequent typos by typing
it in the message.

(It is not impossible it is in the German language with a K, I do not know
that, in Dutch it is official with C however often written with a K)

AFAIK, Arne is from Germany,


Correct.

and in German it's "Funktion". I assume Arne uses C# more than he uses VB.NET,
Correct as well, although I have been a VB-Classic-programmer for years.

so he doesn't know how to spell 'Function' :-).


I only spent too much time in writing a custom wrapper class for the
IActiveDesktop interface and did the post without concentration :-(

I'm sorry for that.

Cheers

Arne Janning

Nov 20 '05 #13
Hello:

I want a function to return three variables to the calling procedure:

Private Function CalcTimes(ByVal iAddDays as Integer, ByVal iAddHours as
Integer, ByVal iAddMins as Integer) As Array

Variable values are calculated in the function.

Calling procedure receives the values preferably into variables of the same
name.

Like: Me.CalcTimes(iA ddDays, iAddHours, iAddMins)

Further use is ...(New TimeSpan(iAddDa ys, iAddHours, iAddMins, 0))

Could use ParamArray Arguments?

Is As Array correct or should it be As Integer?
Do I need to declare CalcTimes as an array before it is used, or is it an
array by definition?

This is somewhat confusing to me.
Balena's Prog-Vb ParamArray example begins:
Function Sum(ParamArray ByVal args() As Integer) As Integer
Dim index As Integer
For index = 0 to UBound(args)... .
No mention of index being an array as Dim index As Array

Sum? Is that a keyword being used, or just a poor choice of a symbol
representation?
So far, I'm getting a debug error. I tried a return statement:
Return CalcTimes(iAddD ays, iAddHours, iAddMins)
I'm not even sure about using a return statement here. It immediately
preceeds the End Function statement anyway.
Sorry about being lazy. 5:36AM is near end of the day for me.
Thanks.

Dennis D.
Nov 21 '05 #14
"Dennis D." <te**@dennisys. com> wrote in message
news:uj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
Hello:

I want a function to return three variables to the calling procedure:

Private Function CalcTimes(ByVal iAddDays as Integer, ByVal iAddHours as
Integer, ByVal iAddMins as Integer) As Array

Variable values are calculated in the function.

Calling procedure receives the values preferably into variables of the
same name.

Like: Me.CalcTimes(iA ddDays, iAddHours, iAddMins)

Further use is ...(New TimeSpan(iAddDa ys, iAddHours, iAddMins, 0))

Could use ParamArray Arguments?

Is As Array correct or should it be As Integer?
Do I need to declare CalcTimes as an array before it is used, or is it an
array by definition?

This is somewhat confusing to me.
Balena's Prog-Vb ParamArray example begins:
Function Sum(ParamArray ByVal args() As Integer) As Integer
Dim index As Integer
For index = 0 to UBound(args)... .
No mention of index being an array as Dim index As Array

Sum? Is that a keyword being used, or just a poor choice of a symbol
representation?
So far, I'm getting a debug error. I tried a return statement:
Return CalcTimes(iAddD ays, iAddHours, iAddMins)
I'm not even sure about using a return statement here. It immediately
preceeds the End Function statement anyway.
Sorry about being lazy. 5:36AM is near end of the day for me.
Thanks.

Dennis D.

Whoops. Index is a counter. My bass.
Nov 21 '05 #15

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