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Beginner Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 14

Every now and then, for seemingly no reason at all, all of my array variables will bug out. Instead of containing the information in the array, they instead only show their value to be

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

Are you trying to directly assign arrays anywhere? If so, that would cause this problem since array objects are special variables which require special commands/functions to manipulate.

For example:

#VARIABLE Array1 %array(1, 2, 3)
#VARIABLE Array2 @Array1
#SHOW Treating Array1 and Array2 as standard variables:
#SHOW @Array1
#SHOW @Array2
#SHOW Treating Array1 and Array2 as arrays:
#SHOWARR Array1
#SHOWARR Array2

You'll see that when we use #SHOW on the variables, they both return an identical result: <Array> But when we use #SHOWARR we find out that one is an array and the other is not (since it was assigned from the expansion of @Array1 which is <Array> like the #SHOW command told us).

If you want to copy from one array to another, you could do something like:

#ALIAS copyarray {#VARIABLE %2 %array();#LOOP 0,%arrhigh(%1) {#NOOP %arrset(%2, %i, %arrget(%1, %i))}}

And then you can do:
copyarray Array1 Array2

Of course, since you haven't posted the code for how you are using your array variables, it's rather hard to say why it's happening.