How to return a simple variable from a function (still newbie) ?

[Stef Mientki]

<snip> I'll hope to understand that later on !</snip>

  You can achieve the
> same result without side-effects by returning more than one return value
> from your function.
> 
> Hope this helps,
Wow this certainly helps,
thanks very much Carsten!

Why is the obvious sometimes so far away ;-)

cheers,
Stef Mientki