Return value of recursive function is 'undefined'

Question

Whenever I execute this snippet the console.log before return returns the array with 20 times the value 23. However console.log(Check(users, 0, 20)); returns only 'undefined'.

What am I doing wrong?

var users = [23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23];
console.log(Check(users, 0, 20));

function Check(ids, counter, limit){
    ids.push(23);

    // Recursion
    if (counter+1 < limit){
        Check(ids, counter+1, limit);
    }
    else {
        console.log(ids);
        return ids;
    }
}

Solution

You forgot to return a result from the point, where you entering recusrion.

var users = [23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23];
console.log(Check(users, 0, 20));

function Check(ids, counter, limit){
    ids.push(23);

    // Recursion
    if (counter+1 < limit){
        return Check(ids, counter+1, limit); // return here!
    }
    else {
        console.log(ids);
        return ids;
    }
} 

But return value seems useless, cause' your function altering initial array as well.

Comments

[Ian]

No return statement in the if block means undefined. It might be easier to maintain if you put one return statement at the end of the function and set the value to return based on the if statement

[outis]

Does this answer your question? undefined returned from function

[Hedge]

I simplified the function as much as possible in order to not distract from the real problem. Thanks a lot.