Size of an array

[Impulse08]

This may be a stupid quesiton, but I couldn't find this in the helpfile or searching the forums. How do I determine the length of an array. Basically I want to split up a string to determine the first, middle, and last names. However sometimes there may not be a middle name. This way the size of array temp would change. Any ideas?

$FullName = "First Middle Last"

$temp = StringSplit($FullName," ")

$FirstName = $temp[1]

$MiddleName = $temp[2]

$LastName = $temp[3]

This would break if $FullName = "First Last"

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Helge]

Directly from the helpfile :

the first element ($array[0]) contains the number of strings returned

You should also check out Ubound as well, which you most likely will find useful

at a later time. When using Ubound though, you must note this :

Remember that the value returned by UBound is one greater than the index of

an array'slast element!

Edit : Test-script :

$array = StringSplit("Well|How|Yes|Remote|Cool", "|")
MsgBox(64, "", "$array[0] says : " & $array[0])
MsgBox(64, "", "Ubound says : " & UBound($array))

Edited July 25, 2006 by Helge

[theguy0000]

$name = InputBox ("name", "enter your first and last (and maybe middle) name.")
$array = StringSplit ($name, " ")
$num = $array[0]
If $num = 2 Then
    $first = $array[1]
    $middle = ""
    $last = $array[2]
Else
    $first = $array[1]
    $middle = $array[2]
    $last = $array[3]
EndIf

[Impulse08]

Directly from the helpfile :

You should also check out Ubound as well, which you most likely will find useful

at a later time. When using Ubound though, you must note this :

Edit : Test-script :

$array = StringSplit("Well|How|Yes|Remote|Cool", "|")
MsgBox(64, "", "$array[0] says : " & $array[0])
MsgBox(64, "", "Ubound says : " & UBound($array))

Duh. Thanks, of course the first element contains the number of elements. I'll also have to check out UBound for later.

Thanks again.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

if you are not using a func which returns the number of elements in [0] then use Ubound.

So long,

Mega

[MHz]

This would break if $FullName = "First Last"

Considering that you may want to keep the same amount of elements in each separate array created.

You can use StringReplace to check and add extra whitespace to compensate.

$FullName = "First Middle Last"
$FullName = "First Last"
If StringReplace($FullName, " ", "") And @extended = 1 Then
    $FullName = StringReplace($FullName, " ", "  ")
EndIf

$temp = StringSplit($FullName," ")
If Not @error Then
    For $i = 1 To $temp[0]
        MsgBox(0, '', $temp[$i])
    Next
EndIf

$FirstName = $temp[1]
$MiddleName = $temp[2]
$LastName = $temp[3]

Edited July 25, 2006 by MHz