Hi,

 Can you help me in how to return multiple values from a function, the below code is throwing an error as below

Program:
import std.stdio: writeln;
import std.typecons: tuple, Tuple;

Tuple!(int, string[]) Params () {
int Test1;
string[] Path;
Test1 = 1;
Path = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"];
return Test1;
return Path;
}

void main (){
int Test1;
string[] Path;
Params;
writeln(Test1);
writeln(Path);
}

Error:
TEx1.d(9): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression Test1 of type int to Tuple!(int, string[])
TEx1.d(10): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression Path of type string[] to Tuple!(int, string[])

From,
Vino.B

On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 07:27:12 UTC, Vino.B wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Can you help me in how to return multiple values from a function, the below code is throwing an error as below

import std.stdio: writeln;
import std.typecons: tuple, Tuple;

Tuple!(int, string[]) Params () {
    return tuple(1, ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]);
}

void main (){
    Params.writeln;
}

On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 07:40:23 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
> On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 07:27:12 UTC, Vino.B wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  Can you help me in how to return multiple values from a function, the below code is throwing an error as below
>
> import std.stdio: writeln;
> import std.typecons: tuple, Tuple;
>
> Tuple!(int, string[]) Params () {
>     return tuple(1, ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]);
> }
>
> void main (){
>     Params.writeln;
> }

Hi,

 Thank you very much, i have used your idea and was able to resolve, and i need one more favor. the below code outputs the value but i need the name of the variable + value as below.

Output :
1
2
["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]

Required Output:
Test1 = 1
Test2 = 2
Path = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]

Program:
import std.stdio: writeln;
import std.typecons: tuple, Tuple;
import std.array: appender;

Tuple!(int,int, string[]) Params () {
int Test1;
int Test2;
string[] File1;
string[] File2;
auto Path = appender!(string[]);
Test1 = 1;
Test2 = 2;
File1 = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP"];
File2 = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"];
Path ~= File1;
Path ~= File2;
return tuple (Test1, Test2, Path.data);

}

void main (){
writeln(Params[0]);
writeln(Params[1]);
writeln(Params[2]);
}
return tuple (Test1, Test1Test2, Path.data);

}

void main (){
writeln(Params[0]);
writeln(Params[1]);
}

From,
Vino.B

On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 09:22:25 UTC, Vino.B wrote:

>  Thank you very much, i have used your idea and was able to resolve, and i need one more favor. the below code outputs the value but i need the name of the variable + value as below.
>
> Output :
> 1
> 2
> ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]
>
> Required Output:
> Test1 = 1
> Test2 = 2
> Path = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]

For fixed names case you can hardcode it:
writeln("Test1 = ", Params[0]);
writeln("Test2 = ", Params[1]);
writeln("Path = ",  Params[2]);

You can't print the actual name of the variable used in tuple constructing because tuple doesn't store it. More of this, the tuple can be constructed from expression without a name, so it's impossible in common case.

On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 09:22:25 UTC, Vino.B wrote:
> Output :
> 1
> 2
> ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]
>
> Required Output:
> Test1 = 1
> Test2 = 2
> Path = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP", "C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"]
>
> From,
> Vino.B

If you just need it to be displayed then you can add it to the writeln call : writeln("Test 1 = ", Params[0]);

But if you want to do it dynamically then maybe you should be using an associative array or a tuple of tuples :

import std.stdio;
import std.array;
import std.typecons;

alias Result = Tuple!(
	Tuple!(string, int),
	Tuple!(string, int),
	Tuple!(string, string[])
);

Result Params () {
	int Test1;
	int Test2;
	string[] File1;
	string[] File2;
	auto Path = appender!(string[]); //string[] path; path.reserve(2) ?
	Test1 = 1;
	Test2 = 2;
	File1 = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM1\\BACKUP"];
	File2 = ["C:\\Temp\\TEAM2\\ARCHIVE"];
	Path ~= File1;
	Path ~= File2;
	return tuple(
		tuple("Test1", Test1),
		tuple("Test2", Test2),
		tuple("Path", Path.data)
	);

}

void main (){
	auto res = Params();
	writeln(res[0][0], " = ", res[0][1]);
	writeln(res[1][0], " = ", res[1][1]);
	writeln(res[2][0], " = ", res[2][1]);
}

You can also loop through res :

void main (){
	auto res = Params();
	foreach(r; res)
		writeln(r[0], " = ", r[1]);
}