Vista - Returning Variables from a Function...

Is it possible to return 2 variables from a function?

Somethig like this.....?

Function DoThis ( $inString, $outString1, $outString2)
{
..... Do some stuff

$outString1 = $a
$outString2 = $b

}

DoThis $inputToFunction $outputFromFunction1 $outputFromFunction2

$outputFromFunction1
$outputFromFunction2

Does that make sense....!? doubt it.
Basically however it's done, I like to call a function that takes one
input, and returns 2 or 3 outputs to assigned variables.

Cheers
Russ.

Anything that is not captured (assigned to a variable) inside the function
is returned.

Check out
Effective PowerShell Item 7: Understanding "Output"
http://keithhill.spaces.live.com/Blo...3A97!811.entry


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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

Actually you have to try to control what you return.

Function in Powershell are not like functions in VBScript.

In Powershell anything that is outputed will get returned from the function.

So lets take this example
function foo {"Value1","Value2"}
$v1,$v2 = foo
$v1
Value1
$v2
Value2

An exception is if you use Write-Host, Write-Verbose, Write-Error... These
write data to console and not output.

Make sense?

Brandon Shell
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r> Is it possible to return 2 variables from a function?
r>
r> Somethig like this.....?
r>
r> Function DoThis ( $inString, $outString1, $outString2)
r> {
r> .... Do some stuff
r> $outString1 = $a
r> $outString2 = $b
r> }
r>
r> DoThis $inputToFunction $outputFromFunction1 $outputFromFunction2
r>
r> $outputFromFunction1
r> $outputFromFunction2
r> Does that make sense....!? doubt it.
r> Basically however it's done, I like to call a function that takes one
r> input, and returns 2 or 3 outputs to assigned variables.
r> Cheers
r> Russ.

Try this:

help about_ref

Is it what you want?

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Thanks,
Roman Kuzmin

http://code.google.com/p/farnet/
PowerShell and .NET in Far Manager


"rush" <russell.hancock@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:01f7bd93-1beb-44d9-bed6-25c21241ea64@xxxxxx

as was mentioned everything not consumed in a function is returned..

so
function myfunc {
1
2
3
4
5
}

when you run that 5 items are returned..

if you do

$a = myfunc

then $a will contain an array with 5 itemes.. well powershell allows the
syntax of assigning the results to more than one item.. so

$a,$b,$c,$d,$e = myfunc

will put 1 in $a, 2 in $b etc

well what happens when there are more items returned than variables?
basically the last item gets the remaining

so
$a,$b,$c = myfunc

will result in $a containing 1
$b containg 2
and $c containing and array of 3 4 and 5.

-Karl

Thanks Karl & Brandon...
That's what I needed to know!