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I am trying to get the number of coumns in each row. What is the technical name, elements in array?

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ConsoleWrite("-"&@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(UBound($Office,0) &@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(UBound($Office,1) &@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(UBound($Office,2) &@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite(UBound($Office,3) &@CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("-"&@CRLF)

It returns

-
2
4
7
0
-

But I want to see

-
null
4
6
6
-

What did I do wrong?

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Please read the help file for "UBound" (again):

"If this parameter is 0, the number of subscripts in the array is returned." All other values return the size of this dimension.

You have a two dimensional array with 4 rows and 7 columns. The indices to access this elements (as the numbering starts with 0) go from 0 to 3 and 0 to 6.

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You can think of an array in autoit3 as rectangular.

If the row with the most columns is 7, then they all have 7 column, so ubound will only serve

you as a tool here. You will need to iterate/loop through your array, and test in some manner

whether the elements are empty or not.

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You can think of an array in autoit3 as rectangular.

A two dimensional array is a "rectangular", a three dimensional array is a "cube" etc.

If the row with the most column is 7, then they all have 7 column...

The number of rows and columns of an array is set by the Global statement defining the array and is what is returned by UBound regardless how many rows/columns you have put data into. To change the dimensions (rows/columns) of an array you have to use ReDim.

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Need logic to count those that are filled:

dim $somearray[2][5]=[[1,2,3,"",""],[9,8,7,6,""]]

for $i = 0 To UBound ($somearray)-1
$counter = 0
For $j = 0 to UBound ( $somearray,2)-1
;ConsoleWrite ( $somearray[$i][$j] & @CRLF)
If stringlen ($somearray[$i][$j])>0 Then $counter=$counter+1
Next
ConsoleWrite ( $counter & @CRLF )
Next
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Thank you all for your replies. I read them very carefully and now understand why they are returning such values. The Ubound,0 is the dimensions = 2 because it is 2D, 1 is the row, 2 is the columns..

I now know I should rephrase my original question as "How do I count the number of non empty columns in a [selected] row in an array"

For example I have $Office[1][$i], where $i is unknown.

First I should do a test for an empty value which is: ""

Then loop through them

So I guess it goes like this

For $i =0 To UBound($Office,2) -1 ;cause 2 stands for columns (7), and minus 1 because it is actually 0 to 6

If $Office[1][$i] <> "" Then

$count+1

EndIf

Next

ConsoleWrite($Office[1][$count])

Or something... Anyway thanks for the advice, its very good

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