Re: When Writing then reading a multi dim array it is changed to single dim array

[Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, it seems dimensions are not written. You need to write them
separately.
https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/datarep?nh

Jussi

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 3:21 AM Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Can you write and read it as an array with the dimension specified?
> I guess Interger[] does not serialize its dimensions.
>
> Jussi
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 3:03 AM Brian G <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> if I have a multi dimensional array and write it as an object, then read
>> it back it becomes a single dimensional array.
>>
>> The number of entries remain the same, just the dimensions are lost.
>>
>> I don't know if this a bug or a feature?
>>
>> sample script
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env gbs3
>>
>> Dim a As New Integer[5, 5, 5]
>> Dim b As Integer[]
>>
>> Dim x As Pointer = Alloc(5000)
>> Dim mfile As File
>>
>> mfile = Memory x For Write
>> Write #mfile, a As Object
>> Close mfile
>>
>> mfile = Memory x For Read
>> b = Read #mfile As Object
>>
>> Print Subst("Before saving array  count=&1, Dim=&2", a.count, a.dim)
>> Print Subst("After reading array  count=&1, Dim=&2", b.count, b.dim)   '
>> they don't match
>>
>> Quit 0
>> Catch
>> Error "Script Error >";; error.text & "\n" & error.where
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~ Brian
>>
>>