Re: looping through variable length array

["Stephen Frackelton" <stephen.frackelton@baesystems.com>]

i would be using 'range anyway
the problem is the array size is variable, i have many declared arrays of
various sizes and wish to write one looping process to cater for all,
obviously i cannot loop through the array name as this only caters for that
instance of the array
thanks
Stephen

"Larry Hazel" <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote in message
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> Stephen Frackelton wrote:
> >
> > i'm attempting to loop through a set of arrays, but theses arrays are of
> > different lengths to cater for various message sizes.
> > but i want to write the loop only once to cater for this.
> > how is the best way to model this ?
> >
> > can i somehow use an unconstrained array ?
> >
> > if i have my data available in a fixed size array, how can i get this
> > variable into a format i can loop through, regardless of the size of the
> > array.
>
> Knowing the number of items in the array, just loop from
>   array_name'first .. array_name'first + number_items - 1
> and you may know that array_name'first is 1, so you can loop from 1 ..
> number_items.
>
> I'm a bit confused by "loop through a set of arrays".
>
> Larry