Hi Tim,
you could populate an array via a function. Declare a global
variable for your array and use it in your custom function. I suppose there
will be no complain.
Good luck
Yannick Leduc
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> Date: 21 janvier, 1999 12:26
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> Objet: MI MB: Listbox help
>
>
>
> Hi. I'm writing an application that has a listbox control.
> This listbox is
> populated by a semicolon-delimited string. After the user
> picks one of the
> items, I want to capture the name of the item they select. I
> tried using the
> Into clause in the control, and also ReadControlValue, but
> they both simply
> return the index position of the item in the list.
>
> Example - My string is "USA;Canada;Mexico". If the user
> chooses Mexico, I
> want to put the word "Mexico" into a string variable. Using
> the "into"
> clause, I get a 3. ReadControlValue returns a 3.
>
> I can't use an array because the string is returned from a
> call to a custom
> function, and arrays are not valid return types. Since the number and
> content of the values will change every time it's run, I
> can't use a Do Case
> type of thing.
>
> I'm starting to think I'll need to parse all of the values out of the
> delimited string and populate an array with them (yuk).
> There has to be a
> better way. What am I missing here?
>
>
> Thanks -
>
> Tim Nuteson
> Dayton Hudson Corp.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 612.370.6763
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