Question

is it possible to have a public method that returns multiple values and then later call that method only retrieving the value that you want?

public static string Values()
{
    string length = DAL.Util.getlength();
    string Name = DAL.Util.getName(ddlID.SelectedValue);
    return length + Name;
}

now I know if I were to call this method just by saying

string a = Values();

it would return the concatenated string of both length and Name, but is there anyway to call just a specific variable from that method even if it were 10 variables long?

Thanks for any advice and help you can provide.

Answer 1

Sounds like what you actually want is a struct (or a class)

public struct MyStruct
{
    public string length
    public string name
}

public static MyStruct Values()
{
    MyStruct result;
    result.name = DAL.Util.getName(ddlID.SelectedValue);
    result.length = DAL.Util.getlength();
    return (result);
}

Then you can look at the different elements of the struct as you like.

MyStruct data = Values();
Console.WriteLine(data.name);
Console.WriteLine(data.length);