Looking back at the initial problem posted by the OP, I don’t think it takes much more than:
Func main()
Local $var1, $var2
web_extraction($var1, $var2)
StringStripWS($var1, 3)
EndFunc
Func web_extraction(ByRef $var1, ByRef $var2)
$var1 = "extracted info 1"
$var2 = "extracted info 2"
EndFunc