From:	"Elias Pschernig" <f DOT x DOT gruber-museum-arnsdorf AT magnet DOT at>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: how do I pass more than one value out of a function???
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:01:18 +0200
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Sal schrieb in Nachricht <358bfa94 DOT 0 AT news2 DOT ibm DOT net>...
>I come from a pascal background... anyway, I know how to use a fundtion to
>ruturn a value.  What do I do to mave something that ruturns several
>values??

a simple thing to do this in C is using pointers (like in Pascal):

example:

void getposition(int *x,int *y)
{
 *x=5;
 *y=8;
}

void main(void)
{
 int a,b;
 getposition(&a,&b);
 // this will "return" 5 to a and 8 to b
}

hth,
Elias Pschernig

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