Help with Arrays??

[Mark Smith]

Sorry, typo (in message, not tested script):

on showArray 12,tArray
should be
on showArray x,tArray

Mark

On 21 Mar 2006, at 10:49, Mark Smith wrote:

> Wow. The following meaningless script fails, (though it doesn't  
> produce an error) ie. the result is simply 12 in the message box,  
> the keys of the array are not sent to the message box...
>
> on mouseUp
>   showArray 12,makeArray(12)
> end mouseUp
>
> on showArray 12,tArray
>   put x & cr & the keys of tArray
> end showArray
>
> function makeArray x
>   repeat with n = 1 to x
>     put 0 into tArray[n]
>   end repeat
>   return tArray
> end makeArray
>
>
> while
>
> on mouseUp
>   put makeArray(12) into tArray
>   showArray 12,tArray
> end mouseUp
>
> works just fine...
>
> Maybe this is a bug. Anyone else come across this?
>
> Mark
>
> On 21 Mar 2006, at 07:39, Arthur Urban wrote:
>
>> I don't know what the heck is going on here, but I know it's  
>> making me a wee bit testy. (I don't like needless local variables,  
>> what can I say...)
>>
>> Here's the code that works just fine. Please note that I've  
>> confirmed the value of x, it is not the problem here. The function  
>> returns an Array.
>>
>>    put MyFunc( x ) into theArray
>>    DisplayPurchaseLine x, theArray
>>
>> The following code fails miserably passing empty for theArray  
>> argument; x is passed in just fine:
>>
>>    DisplayPurchaseLine x, MyFunc( x )
>>
>> Why do  I need to put the MyFunc() return value (an array) into a  
>> local variable first. It clearly makes it out of the function  
>> call, but cannot then immediately be used as a parameter. Huh?
>>
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