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A function can only have one return value. In Access 2, there were a couple of ways to work around this limitation:
Function MultiMode(iMode As Integer) As String Select Case iMode Case 1 MultiMode = "Value for first Option" Case 2 MultiMode = "Value for second Option" Case Else MultiMode = "Error" End Select End Function
Function MultiArgu(i1, i2, i3) i1 = "First Return Value" i2 = "Second Return Value" i3 = "Third Return Value" End Function
VBA (Access 95 onwards) allows you to return an entire structure of values. In database terms, this is analogous to returning an entire record rather than a single field. For example, imagine an accounting database that needs to summarize income by the categories Wages, Dividends, and Other. VBA allows you to declare a user-defined type to handle this structure:
Public Type Income Wages As Currency Dividends As Currency Other As Currency Total As Currency End Type
You can now use this structure as the return type for a function. In a real situation, the function would look up your database tables to get the values, but the return values would be assigned like this:
Function GetIncome() As Income GetIncome.Wages = 950 GetIncome.Dividends = 570 GetIncome.Other = 52 GetIncome.Total = GetIncome.Wages + GetIncome.Dividends + GetIncome.Other End Function
To use the function, you could type into the Immediate Window:
GetIncome().Wages
(Note: the use of "Public" in the Type declaration gives it sufficient scope.)
Programmers with a background in C will instantly recognize the possibilities now that user-defined types can be returned from functions. If you're keen, user-defined types can even be based on other user-defined types.
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