[RESOLVED] Doesn't return value on all code paths

[graham23s]

Hi There Guys,

I'm trying to get my head around this issue, on a few of my functions i get a warning " 'functionDealWithHiddenFields' doesn't return a value on all code paths. A null reference exception could occur at run time when the result is used."

Example function:

Function functionDealWithHiddenFields(ByVal HTML As String, ByVal numHiddenFields As Integer, ByVal X As Integer)
 
        Try
 
            'For i As Integer = 0 To numHiddenFields
            '// The html source
            Dim sText = HTML
 
            '// The string we are searching for
            Dim sPattern As String = "(?<=<input type=""hidden"" class="").*?(?="".*?')"
 
            '// This is the regular expression
            Dim regex As New Regex(sPattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase Or RegexOptions.Singleline)
 
            '// The matches that we return are put in the matchcollection
            Dim regexMatches As MatchCollection = regex.Matches(sText)
 
            '// Return
            'Return regexMatches(0).ToString
            'MessageBox.Show("Hidden Field " & X & ": " & regexMatches(X).ToString)
 
            Return regexMatches(X).ToString
 
        Catch ex As Exception
 
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error)
 
        End Try
 
    End Function

The functions still work correctly (as far as i can tell) what would i need to do to the above function to remedy that warning?

thanks for any info guys

Graham