Yes it does, but I dont know how else to do it.

I have a function that extracts data from a database, which another function reads. This stores a starting sequence number.

Then the script performs various actions.

Then at the end another function needs to get the starting sequence number to process some files.

Here are the functions and how they are called. The first two pipelined are the ones extracting/reading the data from within the database, then the bottom one needs to get the value read by setStopSeq

getLogFile | setStopSeq
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