arrays

[emoyasha 0]

i need help. i want to start using arrays, however i dont understand exactly what they do how they work and how to use them, any explenation would be helpful

Edited January 24, 2008 by emoyasha

[FireLordZi 0]

Arrays are just holding cells for values (similar to variables), and they can be multi-dimensional in autoit.

Here's the StringSplit example from the helpfile:

$days = StringSplit("Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat", ",")
;$days[1] contains "Sun" ... $days[7] contains "Sat"

StringSplit returns an array, in this case $days[]. So instead of having to store

each string (sun,mon,tue) into a variable you cant extract them from the array.

Here's another example actually doing something:

$days = StringSplit("Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat", ",")
For $x = 1 To $days[0]
     MsgBox(0, "", $days[$x])
Next

Hope this helps and I hope I didn't make any mistakes!

[emoyasha 0]

ahh i see now, thanks!