Accessing Lotus Notes from SAP

I'm trying to access data of Lotus Notes databases from an ABAP using OLE.
If the Lotus Notes Class returns a "common" variable (string, number or another object), there is no problem, but when it returns an "stringArray" or a "valueArray" variable I cannot get the value.
For example, it happens when trying to get the value of a field from a document:
CALL METHOD OF w_document 'GetItemValue' = w_value
EXPORTING #1 = 'FieldName'.
this method returns a "valueArray" value and defining the w_value as string or character in ABAP is does not crash but the content of w_value after having executed this method is always blank.
Any idea on how to solve it?
Thanks
josep

hi,
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