PocketMatrix

I have a class that contains a list as one of it's private members. I'd like to have a function, say class.RetrieveElement(index$), that retrieves an item from this list and returns that element to the user. Or, worst case scenario, I would pass the variable to store the element of the list in as the second variable. So my syntax would either be:

x$ = class.RetrieveElement(1);

or:

class.RetrieveElement(1, &x$);

Now the element will be a string, and I can't seem to get the value out of the class. No matter what I do, x$ always ends up being the address of the element, not the value of the element. Please help!

Just to verify, I first tried a return(@data$);. This gave me the "address misaligned" error. Then I left out the @ in the return statement and tried ShowMessage(@val$);, where val$ is the variable assigned to the return of the function. There was no error, but the value displayed was still the address, not the actual value of the string.

No problem, we could have discovered something buggy along the way!