Hi All,

Just to add some context to my previous question: I'm trying to understand the difference between assigning the return value of a function to a variable directly vs assigning the “$rc” value to a variable after the function has run.

Rereading my initial email, I hope this makes my question clearer 🤣🤣

Thanks again, Joel

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 16:46 Joel Serrano joel@textplus.com wrote:

Hi All,

I have a simple doubt: are these snippets the same?

*One:*

secf_check_country($hdr(X-SRC-IP-CC));
$var(secf_cc_rc) = $rc;
if ($var(secf_cc_rc) == -2) {
...

*Two:*

$var(secf_cc_rc) = secf_check_country($hdr(X-SRC-IP-CC));
if ($var(secf_cc_rc) == -2) {
...

They both seem to work, the docs say to use option -one-. In case they do the same, is there a reason I should pick one over the other? Or is this purely cosmetic?

Thanks, Joel.