Hi John,
I had to jump in here, if for no other reason than to let people know
I'm still alive and kicking. :-)
When you said "One thing you CAN'T do is insert a value." I hope you
meant attribute. You can insert (and delete) values and subvalues all
day long. If you are working with an item where a specific attribute
position has meaning, and hopefully a dictionary item that defines it,
you would not want to insert attributes anyway. That would lead to
hair-pulling, gnashing of teeth and other bad things. If you're working
on a variable length item such as a list of IDs, report, etc., a dynamic
array is definitely the way to go. Just use whichever best fits the
needs of the situation. Neither is inherently good or bad - it's all
context driven.
Regards,
Charlie Noah
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On 07-27-2012 11:27 AM, Israel, John R. wrote:
SPEED!
Other than the extra time spent to build it, it is MUCH faster to access VAR(1000)
than to access VAR<1000>.
If I know my variables are going to be small or I am doing reads, yeah, I use
dynamic arrays.
If I am building some big arrays in a program, I usually use dim arrays.
One thing you CAN'T do is insert a value.
If I have a real ugly array in a pgm that needs 1 more level of delimiting
beyond @SVM, I will use a DIM array as my first level. Yeah, I know @TMs
exist, but the functions do not know how to use them.
John
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brutzman
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 11:16 AM
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Subject: [U2] Array Types
I am surprised that anyone uses dimensioned arrays. I use dynamic arrays for
everything.
If there are any advantages that dimension arrays have over dynamic... please
let me know... without getting sentimental.
--Bill
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