DIM

The DIM command allows you to define a vector or a multidimensional array of values, and to initialize this array with the preferred values.

The simplest syntax is that which defines a vector of a single dimension: in this case, it is sufficient to indicate the number of elements in parentheses. With the keyword AS you can indicate the data type of each single element. You can, of course, define a matrix (i.e. a vector with two or more dimensions). In this case it is sufficient to indicate the number of elements for each dimension, separating them with a comma.

By definition, the array will be initialized with a value of zero for each element. You can change this behavior by specifying an initialization by assignment. The initialization can be done by indicating each single value of each single element, with the same type of data with which the matrix was created (with the # {...} syntax ), or by describing the memory area that will occupy the array, byte by byte (with the # [...] syntax ).

EXAMPLE

 DIM x(42)
 DIM values AS DWORD(20,20)
 DIM y AS BYTE(8) = #[ff80ff80ff80ff80]
 DIM z AS BYTE(8) = _
              #{ 255, 128, 255, 128, 255, 128, 255, 128 }
 DIM scores WITH 0 (2)

Used in:
ACCESSING (1) ACCESSING (2) ACCESSING (3) ACCESSING (4) INITIALIZING SIERPINSKI CHALLENGE (optimized) SIERPINSKI CHALLENGE (final)