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dandrews
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Posted: 19th Jun 2022 15:02 Edited at: 19th Jun 2022 15:06
It's my understanding that this code should increase and arrays length by one

In my code when it loops back it says the index is out of bounds

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Steve Ancell
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Posted: 19th Jun 2022 15:26 Edited at: 20th Jun 2022 23:01
An empty array is -1 in length, in an array that contains something the first index starts at 0 and the last index is the same number as length. I hope this helps
smerf
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Posted: 20th Jun 2022 06:52
there is a neat trick i like to use before i access and array and that is to check its length before i use it



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Posted: 20th Jun 2022 15:09 Edited at: 20th Jun 2022 15:16
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Both of these snippets do the same thing. Always keep in mind that when it is empty the length is -1, when there is one item the length is 0 so the highest address will also be zero.
Just simply add to the length and insert the item into what ever the length is but use that as the address.

You could do this:


Or use the insert method instead, all I did was modify the function AppendMyArray for this:

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