[Gambas-user] Array.Add question

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Sometimes... ok: Never done this before, so I just ask:
> 
> Dim sTest as String[0,0]
> 
> sTest.Add("Hello", "World")
> 
> Where is "Hello" now? At 0,0 or 1,1? Or: Which dimension is added?
> 
> Is that possible - or are multi-dimensional arrays not dynamic?
> 

If Benoit didn't change it (I lost track of all the changes lately due to
exams), multidimensional arrays are static in size. One reason may be
precisely that the choice of a particular dimension to which an Add()
method would add elements is hard to justify.

[ One additional point may be memory consumption: we imagine an n-
  dimensional array as an n-dimensional hyperrectangle. If we increment
  the size in one dimension, a whole (n-1)-dimensional hyperrectangle has
  to be added. ]

Anyway, if you want a refresher on your options regarding arrays in Gambas,
I already wrote about it on this list [0] and even in German [1]. You may
want to use what we call "derived" multidimensional arrays.

Regards,
Tobi

[0] http://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/32228140/
[1] http://gambas-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4688&p=9975#p9975

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