Re: array question

From: Dan Chirillo (danchik5_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/21/04

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    You can do it in VB (pre-.net versions): dim states(1 to 50 ) as string

    You cannot do it in C/C++.

    Hello beliavsky@aol.com,

    > David Lindauer <camille@bluegrass.net> wrote in message
    > news:<419D4EB2.EE08E42D@bluegrass.net>...
    >
    >> Surendra Singhi wrote:
    >>
    >>> Indy Tech wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> howdy all,
    >>>>
    >>>> I am getting back into programming after a long enough absence that
    >>>> the whole landscape has changed. I'm currently working with GCC
    >>>> 3.2.2 and Visual C++ 6.0.
    >>>>
    >>>> I have a vague memory of a way to define arrays that they do not
    >>>> contain a member array(0), but rather start at 1. Don't even
    >>>> recall what lamguage it is from. Can anyone tell me if there is a
    >>>> way to do this in C++?
    >>>>
    >>>> Thanks
    >>>>
    >>>> JP
    >>>>
    >>> I doubt if there is a way to do that in C++ or C.
    >>> Definitely not in Basic.
    >>> Maybe in fortran, I am not sure.
    > In Fortran, the lower bound of arrays is 1 by default, but other
    > integers can be specified.
    >
    > real x(3),y(-1:2)
    >
    > declares arrays with elements [x(1),x(2),x(3)] and
    > [y(-1),y(0),y(1),y(2)]
    >
    > This generalizes to multidimensional arrays. Fortran, especially
    > Fortran 90 and later versions, is better at handling arrays than
    > almost any other language.
    >

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