Working With Dictionary Objects

Object that stores data key, item pairs.

A Dictionary object is the equivalent of a PERL associative array. Items can be any form of data, and are stored in the array. Each item is associated with a unique key. The key is used to retrieve an individual item and is usually a integer or a string, but can be anything except an array.

Methods

Add Method (Dictionary) | Exists Method | Items Method | Keys Method | Remove Method | RemoveAll Method

Properties

Count Property | Item Property | Key Property

Dim d   ' Create a variable.
Set d = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
d.Add "a", "Athens"   ' Add some keys and items.
d.Add "b", "Belgrade"
d.Add "c", "Cairo"

Functions can return a dictionary object and it can indeed use to return multiple values from a Functions. Alternately Function can return multiple value using Array as well 

Dim dicObj
Set dicObj = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

Set obj=getname
MsgBox(obj.item("name"))


Public Function getname()
dicObj.add "name","Uday Kumar"
Set getname=dicObj
End function