Help declaring and initializing an array

[Bresacon]

What should I do to avoid this:

 

Func _Funcname()
    Local $aiResult[10]
    
    [... stuff in between ...]
    
    Local $aiResult[10] = [$value1, $value2, $value3, $value4, $value5]
    Return $aiResult
EndFunc

I don't want to declare the array twice because that doesn't feel correct but I don't know how else can I initialize it at once with all the values. Also, the stuff in between calculates the values so I can't initialize the array at the beginning. It doesn't feel tidy either not to declare the array at the beginning of the function.

Thanks. Sorry for being such a pain.

[Nine]

You do not NEED to declare a variable at the beginning of a function.  This is truly optional.  You can define your variables anywhere in the function.  Best practices recommend declaring at the top but it is not necessary.  And in your particular case, I would remove the first declaration and keep only the last one as it is completely understandable.

[Bresacon]

But I don't want to do that. That's the problem. I want to declare at the beginning and I want to initialize whenever it's needed; and not every element one by one.

[Nine]

7 minutes ago, Bresacon said:

But I don't want to do that

What is so bad of having 2 times Local in front of your variable ?  It is just 5 letters after all...and a space 

[jchd]

I don't see your issue.  You say values $value1, $value2, $value3, ... come from a calculation; so why store the values in countless individual temporary variables instead of loading array elements one by one?

[Nine]

Maybe this ?

Func _Funcname()
    
    [... stuff in here ...]
    
    Return StringSplit($value1 & "|" & $value2 & "|" & $value3 & "|" & $value4 & "|" $value5 & "|||||", "|", $STR_NOCOUNT)
EndFunc

No need to declare anything 

[Factfinder]

If you don't have the values at the beginning, you can declare an empty array and add the values later on when you have the values:

 

local $arry[1]
_ArrayAdd($arry, "test")
_ArrayDisplay($arry)