Global Arrays

gillgian · Post by **gillgian** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:20 pm

Are arrays global? I want to make an array for moblist and i would need to access that list through the program. In the manual i see local, global and array. Do i need to do this:

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/define MobList global array

I didnt see anything in the manual or on the forums concerning this. Thanks in advance

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:36 pm

Arrays are technically global, but are destroyed when the macro ends unless specified.

gillgian · Post by **gillgian** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:08 pm

Ah, Another question i had concerning "arrays" is how to clear em. I assume the programmer is responsible for maintaning the count of an array. Example:

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| To clear the array set count to -1
/varset somearray_count -1

The only problem i see with this the actual memory allocation for this array is still in memory. Is this acceptable? I did see the /zapvars command but did not see how i could clear an individual array.

oh, should i be asking these questions in the macro help section? sorry to spam this area with questions not related to mq2 specifically

ml2517 · Post by **ml2517** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:59 pm

Yes you have to keep count of your array elements yourself.

As far as I know there is no way to clear arrays besides /zapvars and/or ending the macro.

But you *can* re-use the array elements by just changing their values. I do this all of the time. As long as you keep the count accurate you will be fine.