Type & End Types
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| How do you use Them in an array. I need to know if you can use the Field statement to specify how long a string can be.? |
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Type Man Field x Field y End Type ;an array of men Dim Men.Man(10) ;can't do this though because you can't use Dim with Field. Type ArrayOfMen Field Dim Men.Man(10) EndType ;can do this though (note square brackets) Type ArrayOfMen Field Men.Man[10] EndType You can't use Field to limit the size of a string (like in PASCAL) you just have to code it when the string is used. |
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| Hmm. Isn't that exactly how you use arrays within a type? I'm no expert, but that's how I use'em :) |
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| Thanx Grey Alien do you mean I should use Rset or lset to pad the Fields Like: Type man Field Pants$ end type Dim Men.Man(1000) V$="Spartan" Men/Pants$=Rset$(V$,12) |
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| You would have to type Men(x)\Pants$ = Rset$(V$,12) where x is the array "slot" you want to set. Also note the backslash not forward slash. You could use Rset if you want to make the strings all the same length but why? What I meant was, say a user was typing in a string, you could limit it then to a set number of chars, or if reading it from a file you could use Mid$(V$,1,12) to truncate it to 12 chars in the event that it might be longer. btw with my "array of men" type I would normally have other fields in the type such as Count. Then I can pass that type tospecial functions used to clear it, fill it and manipulate it. Not sure you can pass array's into functions as they are global anyway. Maybe someone will correct me on this. |
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