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[Taco Bell]

Twice now I've tried to have alternative return types (non-NUMBER) for my local functions and twice I've failed to successfully do so.

Given that, here's a copy of what I'm doing:

Code Sample

prototype STRING GetTimeStamp(); function GetTimeStamp()  STRING szDate, szTime, szTimeStamp; begin  GetSystemInfo(DATE, nResult, szDate);  GetSystemInfo(TIME, nResult, szTime);  szTimeStamp = szDate+" at "+szTime;  return szTimeStamp; end;

The compile error I get is " ... 'GetTimeStamp' : return type mismatch with prototype".  How come though?  The declaration says STRING and the return is type STRING, so what gives?

I'd appreciate some assistance here in resolving this problem.  In the meantime, I'm gonna cop out and just make it a parameter as I did the last time.

[EberhardH]

Hello TacoBell00,

already tried with

        function STRING GetTimeStamp()
        begin  . . .
        end;

??
Since InstallShield definitely expects the function to name the same return type as your prototype does.

Eberhard

[Taco Bell]

Ah yes that did it and that assumption is backed up by the "Building a function" help topic.  Thanks.

For some reason I didn't think about trying that, but it makes sense.