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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to retrun a value from a function in shell script Post 302691631 by Lem on Saturday 25th of August 2012 06:14:53 AM
Old 08-25-2012
Other ways:

Code:
foo () {
  local _fooresult='happy    end'
  echo "$_fooresult"
}

echo "$(foo)"

Code:
bar () {
    local _barresult=$1
    local _result='happy    end'
    eval $_barresult="'$_result'"
}

bar result
echo "$result"

--
Bye
 

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classkit_import - Import new class method definitions from a file

SYNOPSIS
array classkit_import (string $filename) DESCRIPTION
Note This function cannot be used to manipulate the currently running (or chained) method. Warning This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk. PARAMETERS
o $filename - The filename of the class method definitions to import RETURN VALUES
Associative array of imported methods EXAMPLES
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