Talk:Array

Should there be any comment here or in random about randomly selecting an array element given the rounding rules? Or am I being ridiculous?

e.g.

_myArray select ((random (count _myArray)) - 0.5)

--Mr.Peanut 21:11, 28 September 2006 (CEST)

tmp = []; val1 = [1,2,3]; val2 = [3,4,5]; tmp = tmp + [val1]; tmp = tmp + [val2]; tmp = tmp - [val1];

not working, why? I've also tried "tmp = tmp - val1;" --MessiahUA 16:14, 19 September 2008 (CEST)

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How are arrays stored in memory? Last night, I was successfully able to create an array containing 26905 elements. (one for each land grid square on Altis) [] spawn { _number = 0; _test = []; _brushes = ["Solid","Horizontal","Vertical","Grid","FDiagonal","BDiagonal","DiagGrid","Cross"]; for "_i" from 0 to 308 do { for "_o" from 0 to 308 do { if (!surfaceIsWater [(_o * 100) + 50, (_i * 100) + 50]) then { _name = format["%1_%2",_o,_i]; _marker = createMarker [_name, [(_o * 100) + 50, (_i * 100) + 50]]; _marker setMarkerShape "RECTANGLE"; _marker setMarkerSize [50,50]; _marker setMarkerBrush (_brushes select (floor random (count _brushes))); _marker setMarkerColor "ColorRed"; _number = _number + 1; _test pushBack _marker; }; }; sleep 0.01; }; hint str _number; player setVariable ["holy_shit", _test]; _test = nil; }; I was able to confirm that the array did actually contain my elements with: //ran from debug console _array = (player getVariable "holy_shit"); _array spawn { for "_i" from 0 to ((count _this) - 1) do { hintSilent (_this select _i); sleep 0.05; }; }; I thought it was strange, at first, that my game didn't crash from running out of memory, but after doing some quick math everything seems to be in order. ASCII uses 7 bits and I was saving 5-6 character strings so:
7 * 6 = 42
42 * 26905 = 1130010 bits
1130010 / 8 = 141251 bytes
141251 / 1024 = 138 kilobytes
- DreadedEntity