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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Returning multiple values in Shell Post 302800195 by vidyadhar85 on Monday 29th of April 2013 07:20:07 AM
Old 04-29-2013
Have you tried it as below?

Code:
 
function row
{
a=$1
b=$2
c=$(($a + $b))
d=$(($a * $b))
echo $a $b
}
row 2 3
echo "The value of c is $c"
echo "The value of d is $d"

 

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OVRIMOS_FETCH_ROW(3)													      OVRIMOS_FETCH_ROW(3)

ovrimos_fetch_row - Fetches a row from the result set

SYNOPSIS
bool ovrimos_fetch_row (int $result_id, [int $how], [int $row_number]) DESCRIPTION
Fetches a row from the result set. Column values should be retrieved with other calls. PARAMETERS
o $result_id - A result identifier, returned by ovrimos_execute(3) or ovrimos_exec(3). o $how - Determines how the rows are fetched. This can be one of the following strings (case is not significant): +---------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Option | | | | | | | Notes | | | | +---------+---------------------------------------------------+ | | | | Next | | | | | | | Forward direction from current position. This is | | | the default value. | | | | | | | | Prev | | | | | | | Backward direction from current position. | | | | | | | | First | | | | | | | Forward direction from the start. | | | | | | | | Last | | | | | | | Backward direction from the end. | | | | | | | |Absolute | | | | | | | Absolute position from the start. Requires | | | $rownumber. | | | | +---------+---------------------------------------------------+ o $rownumber - The row number, first one is 0. Only needed when $how is set to Absolute. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A fetch row example <?php $conn = ovrimos_connect("remote.host", "8001", "admin", "password"); if ($conn != 0) { echo "Connection ok!"; $res=ovrimos_exec($conn, "select table_id, table_name from sys.tables"); if ($res != 0) { echo "Statement ok!"; if (ovrimos_fetch_row($res, "First")) { $table_id = ovrimos_result($res, 1); $table_name = ovrimos_result($res, 2); echo "table_id=" . $table_id . ", table_name=" . $table_name . " "; if (ovrimos_fetch_row($res, "Next")) { $table_id = ovrimos_result($res, "table_id"); $table_name = ovrimos_result($res, "table_name"); echo "table_id=" . $table_id . ", table_name=" . $table_name . " "; } else { echo "Next: error "; } } else { echo "First: error "; } ovrimos_free_result($res); } ovrimos_close($conn); } ?> This will fetch a row and print the result. SEE ALSO
ovrimos_fetch_into(3). PHP Documentation Group OVRIMOS_FETCH_ROW(3)
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