Can't pass array function result as parameter

[David Burgun]

On 1 Apr 2006, at 05:01, James Spencer wrote:

>
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 8:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> If all else fails, you can always declare a local script variable  
>> to hold the array and then just use that. No passing of anything  
>> required. Or you could try passing the variable by reference (add  
>> an @ sign in front of the parameter) which seems like it should  
>> work but I haven't tried it.
>
> I think both would probably work but the issue at the moment is  
> that I did not write the library that is creating the original  
> array and that eventually expects me to pass an array back.  The  
> author had no reason to know that the output from their function  
> creating the array would be passed back to the other handler as  
> there is no necessary connection between the two and I don't want  
> to mess with the library code myself mostly because I'm being  
> pedantic.
>
> What definitely works is to copy the array myself, element by  
> element, to a local variable and then pass that back to the  
> library.  This works fine in this limited situation because the  
> number of entries in these "arrays" (I hate the name; in this  
> context, they are really a dictionary or a hash) is limited and is  
> predetermined so doing the extra copying works fine.
>

There's really no need to copy it entry by entry, you can just copy  
the whole array as in:

put LibGetArray() into myArray1

put LibAnotherFunction(myArray1) into myArray2  --Here you could put  
it back into Array1

I do this all the time.

What you can't do is this:

put LibAnotherFunction (LibGetArray()) into myArrayX

All the Best
Dave