Passing and returning a variable

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Hi
Back again. I use a few Read-Host statements in my scripts which all follow a standard and thought it would be simple to create a function (save a few lines of code). This my script:Function Get-Input ($Result, $Message){
Clear-Host

Write-Host $Message -ForegroundColor Yellow
$Result = Read-Host

}
$Att = $null
$Msg = “nIf you want to include read-only (r), system (s) or hidden (h) filesn”
$Msg = $Msg +“type them here separated by comma’s. DO NOT include any spaces.`n”
$Msg = $Msg + “Press ENTER to add no attributes’”

Get-Input -Result $Att -Message $Msg
If ($Att -eq “”) {$Att = $null}
Get-ChildItem -Attributes $Att -Path C:\Scripts
Effectively I am asking the user to input what attributes they want to include in the Get-ChildItem statement (along with a prompt message.

Using Write-Host (as a debug tool) inside the function I can see that $Result changes on user input. How do I get it to pass out of the function back into $Att?
Thanks
Tony

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Typically, you would do it like this:

Function Get-Input ($Message){
    Clear-Host
    Write-Host $Message -ForegroundColor Yellow
    
    # Note that Read-Host's result is not assigned to a variable inside the function.  This
    # allows its result value to be send to the function's Output stream.

    Read-Host
}

$Msg = 'Some User prompt'

# The output from the Get-Input function is assigned to a variable out here, in the script scope.
$result = Get-Input -Message $Msg
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Ta Dave - I knew that! Wood for the trees and all that.