DIMming arrays

[Brian Reynolds]

Can I set the length of each segment of a double dimensioned string array?

For example, I can use DIM a(500,12) AS SHARED STRING.

But how do I set the length of each segment, such as
a(x,1) = 5 bytes
a(x,2) = 2 bytes
and so on.

Can anyone give me some advice.

Regards,
Brian Reynolds.

[Michael Mattias]

You should not need to set the length, as you can always interrogate it with LEN:

PRINT LEN(a(x,1))



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Michael Mattias
Racine WI USA
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[Walt Decker]

Have you thought about using a UDT (user defined type)? You could then set the maximum length for each string: EG:

TYPE StringType
A AS STRING * 10
B AS STRING * 20
C AS STRING * 5
END TYPE

DIM MyType(500) AS StringType

[Ian Cairns]

If you want to have a fixed format; rather than dimensioning a dual array, why not use a single array of a UDT:

TYPE myUDT
first AS STRING * 5
second AS STRING * 2
END TYPE

Then DIM myArray(1 TO 100) AS myUDT.

Now a(x,1) would be equivalent to myArray(x).first
and a(x,2) would be equivalent to myArray(x).second

Regards, Ian Cairns
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