Passing parameters into function called after Complete operation in an AJAX call

Thanks to this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6448058/passing-additional-parameters-to-ajax-complete-callback-function

I finally understood how to pass in a parameter into a function call after a AJAX async complete call.  I was wondering how to do it for a while and was going down the round of using global scope variables.

eg the following passes a string "0,1,0,0" into a function which then does a async AJAX call and we want to pass the parameter into the function for the complete operation. The parameter is highlighted in the example below.

getFunds("0,1,0,0");

function getFunds(strGroupsUserIn)
{

var strDeptValue = "Equities";
var strRegionValue = "TW";
var strReportTypeValue = "Characteristics";
var strReportFinderType = "Active";

$(document).ready(function() {
        var soapEnv =
            "<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> \
                <soapenv:Body> \
                     <GetListItems xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/'> \
                        <listName>Names</listName> \
                        <query><Query><Where><And><And><And><Contains><FieldRef Name='Asset_Type'/><Value Type='Text'>"+strDeptValue+"</Value></Contains> \
                         <Contains><FieldRef Name='Report_Type'/><Value Type='Text'>"+strReportTypeValue+"</Value></Contains> \
                         </And> \
                         <Contains><FieldRef Name='Region'/><Value Type='Text'>"+strRegionValue+"</Value></Contains> \
                         </And> \
                         <Contains><FieldRef Name='Live'/><Value Type='Text'>"+strReportFinderType+"</Value></Contains> \
 </And> \
 </Where> \
                         <OrderBy><FieldRef Name='Display_Code' Ascending='TRUE' /></OrderBy></Query></query> \
                        <viewFields> \
                            <ViewFields> \
                               <FieldRef Name='Display_Code' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Asset_Type' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Report_Code' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Region' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Live' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Report_Type' /> \
                              <FieldRef Name='Group1' /> \
  <FieldRef Name='Group2' /> \
    <FieldRef Name='Group3' /> \
    <FieldRef Name='Group4' /> \
                           </ViewFields> \
                        </viewFields> \
                    </GetListItems> \
                </soapenv:Body> \
            </soapenv:Envelope>";

        $.ajax({
            url: "/myserver/is/mn/_vti_bin/lists.asmx",
            type: "POST",
            dataType: "xml",
            data: soapEnv,
            complete: function(jqXHR, textStatus)
            { 
            processFunds(jqXHR, textStatus, strGroupsUserIn)
            
            },
            contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\""
        });
    });
}


    function processFunds(xData, status, strGroups) 
    {

var strForDropDown = "";   
   $(xData.responseXML).find("z\\:row, row").each(function() {
            strForDropDown = strForDropDown + $(this).attr("ows_Display_Code") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Report_Code") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Group1") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Group2") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Group3") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Group4") + "@" +"\n";
        });
        // Now populate the department dropdown with our extracted data
         populateFunds(strForDropDown, strGroups);
    }