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[renskav]

I want to write a function that returns five names, how to best accomplish this? I'm a bit confused about how to return multiple values from a function.

- I can't return an array since the return statement only takes one parameter.
- I've tried using global variables and having the function setting them, but since i want multi-instancing of my AHK script this approach gets sloppy/doesn't work.
- I could concatenate the five names into a colon-delimited string and then loop-parse it after i've called the function, but this seems rather messy.

Thanks in advance /renskav

[tonne]

Use ByRef, as:

[tank]

byRef
example

[renksav]

Ah, perfect, thanks.

[renskav]

by the way the whole point of arrays is to pass multiple values with one variable <- I didn't quite follow this though, im still getting used to the arrays in ahk so i dont see how i could use one to pass multiple values?

[tank]

perhaps this snippet of nonsensical but working code will help spark ideas

[renskav]

I see how it is intended to work, that's sort of what i was doing before.. Doing that approach created problems with using global variables when my script was running multi instance - the instances keep interfering with eachothers variables.

[Rabiator]

Another and simpler way is to return a string containing the separated return values: