Passing and returning arrays

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Grey Alien

Thanks Alex. seem to have figured it out:

Function ArrayFiddler:String[](In$[])
   Local out$[]
   return out
End Function

Local myarray$[]
myarray = ArrayFiddler(myarray)

Now I know I could just modify the In array in the function and because it's passed as a var (isn't it?) it would remain modified after the function, but my function is pretty complex and it's easier to make a new array and pass that out.

Anyway another question arise. Will BMax garbage collection handle this line:

myarray = ArrayFiddler(myarray)

properly because the original myarray is now being overwritten, all the strings in the original one need to be freed and so does the original array. Will that be done? I hope so...