Passing a row to a function

[dch3]

I need to take the row value of the cell in which a function appears and pass
that value into the function itself. As in the example below, cells A1, A2,
A3 all contain the function getName(), I would like getName() to evaluate
differently based on the row number. Is this possible?

COLUMN
ROW A B
1 =getName()
2 =getName()
3 =getName()

 

[Barb Reinhardt]

row()?

 

[dch3]

That will work. In the future, you may want to elaborate a little bit more. I
didn't understand your response until I opened Excel and tried the function.
I obviously wasn't aware that it was a valid Excel function.