returning arrays or vectors

Hi,
My code has a method that reurns an array as below:

public static String[ ] method_name(argument list)
{
statements....

return array;
}

When I try to print the array elements there is nothing that gets printed. But when I print the array elements in the method I am able to print them. What is the problem? why does the array has no elements in the main method?

I am accessing this method in main as below:

array_main = method_name(parameters);

Somebody please help...

Could you post your code for the method?

How have your declared the array which is being "constructed" by the returned array?

Thanks for your response, I got it working... what I did was just make some variables global.