Question

I was just doing some yicky code and I thought, instead of using three dynamic arrays, as such:

dim x() as string, y() as string, z() as string

It will be nicer to have a 3 dimensional dynamic array. But; the help and my fumbling experiments has not revealed the method of defining them.

This does not work:

dim x()() or dim(,2) or dim(,)

Any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

A dynamic array is declared the same way regardless of the number of dimensions (arrays in LotusScript can have up to 8 dimensions). According to your example I think it is a two dimensional array you want, where the first dimension is limited to three entries.

If you first declare the array as:

Dim x() As String 

You can then specify bounds according to the following example:

Redim x( 0 To 2, 0 To 9 ) ' A two dimensional array 

And if you need to enlarge the array later (and keep all the values) you can do it like this:

Redim Preserve x( 0 To 2, 0 To 99 ) 

Please keep in mind that only the bounds of last dimension can be changed once the number of dimensions of the array has been set.