Passing parameters by reference

[Bob Sneidar]

Yup. You can do something like this:

put theArray[1] into theTempArray
xyz theTempArray
put theTempArray into theArray[1]

Bob


On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Pete wrote:

> I think I already know the answer to this so just confirming in case I'm
> missing something
> 
> Let's say I have a handler with a parameter that is passed by reference, eg
> "command xyz @parm1".  If I try to pass an element of an array, eg "xyz
> theArray[2]", I get a runtime error.  If, however, I pass the whole array,
> eg "xyz theArray", all seems to work fine.
> 
> That seems somewhat strange to me but apparently that's the way it is?
> 
> 
> 
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> Pete
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