This task is about arrays.

For hashes or associative arrays, please see Creating an Associative Array.

For a definition and in-depth discussion of what an array is, see Array.



Task

Show basic array syntax in your language.

Basically, create an array, assign a value to it, and retrieve an element   (if available, show both fixed-length arrays and
dynamic arrays, pushing a value into it).

Please discuss at Village Pump:   Arrays.

Please merge code in from these obsolete tasks:

   Creating an Array
   Assigning Values to an Array
   Retrieving an Element of an Array


Related tasks

   Collections
   Creating an Associative Array
   Two-dimensional array (runtime)


use std, array
 
(:::::::::::::::::
 : Static arrays :
 :::::::::::::::::)
let the array of 2 text aabbArray be Cdata{"aa";"bb"}
let raw array of real :my array: = Cdata {1.0 ; 2.0 ; 3.0} (: auto sized :)
let another_array be an array of 256 byte (: not initialised :)
let (raw array of (array of 3 real)) foobar = Cdata {
  {1.0; 2.0; 0.0}
  {5.0; 1.0; 3.0}
}
 
(: macro to get size of static arrays :)
=: <array>.length := -> nat {size of array / (size of array[0])}
printf "%lu, %lu\n" foobar.length (another_array.length) (: 2, 256 :)
 
(: access :)
another_array[255] = '&'
printf "`%c'\n" another_array[255]
 
 
(::::::::::::::::::
 : Dynamic arrays :
 ::::::::::::::::::)
let DynArray = new array of 5 int
DynArray[0] = -42
DynArray = (realloc DynArray (6 * size of DynArray[0])) as (type of DynArray)
DynArray[5] = 243
prints DynArray[0] DynArray[5]
del DynArray