Morthawt Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 (edited) I was checking out the technical limitations of Autoit recently and I noticed there are restrictions on the number of dimensions as well as the elements themselves. However there is no limitations on the numbers of variables that can be used in a script. I have been pondering the possibility of creating a UDF for myself that would mean I could use variables to perform the same actions as I would use arrays for. What do you think about this? Are there any pro's or con's that you can think of? Array dimensions are separated by [ and ], I could separate dimensions with _ and _ and use assign to create the appropriately names variable-array and add the needed numbers at the end in a For loop and use 0 to always list the number of total elements. What are your thoughts? It is just an idea but after seeing the limitations of arrays it just got me wondering. Edited October 1, 2013 by Morthawt Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted October 1, 2013 Moderators Share Posted October 1, 2013 Morthawt, after seeing the limitations of arraysAutoIt arrays are limited to 64 dimensions and a total of 16,777,216 elements. What on earth are you thinking of coding which uses anywhere near that number of dimensions or elements? M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Well I was just thinking in terms of "no limits". So far I can tell there is certainly a speed impact of using assign() vs $xxx = "" unfortunately. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 (edited) As a sidenote, max practical array dimension in AutoIt is 24. 64 is only a theoritical limit which you can't reach. $aTest[2][2]...[2] reaches the maximum number of elements limit (224 = 16777216) when the dimension is 24, and [2] is the least meaningful individual dimension value. BTW, if ever you really need more than 16777216 "variables", I bet my ass you badly need a database to store and organize your data, i.e. a perfect job for SQLite which comes with standard AutoIt installation. Edited October 1, 2013 by jchd This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Well all this is basically a theoretical idea I had to bypass limitations on arrays, however it seems speed is a major impact. I know nothing about sql. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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