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Passing substructure arrays to procedures
« Thread started on: Jul 12th, 2013, 06:24am » |
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Hi,
In Wiki there is a section on passing substructures to procedures. In my program I want to copy an array from a structure rather than a substructure.
I've tried the following:
Code: DIM a{b(3)}, c(3)
FOR I = 0 TO 3
a.b(I) = I * 10
NEXT
PROC_TEST(a{}, a.b(), c())
END
DEF PROC_TEST(x{}, y(), RETURN z())
!(^y()+4) += !(^x{}+4)
FOR I = 0 TO 3
z(I) = y(I)
NEXT
ENDPROC
However, I get a bad subscript error before going to the PROC (line 4).
Is there a way of doing this?
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Re: Passing substructure arrays to procedures
« Reply #1 on: Jul 12th, 2013, 07:51am » |
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on Jul 12th, 2013, 06:24am, Matt wrote:| In my program I want to copy an array from a structure rather than a substructure. |
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Since substructures aren't involved at all, there's no complication and you don't need to take any special measures:
Code: DIM a{b(3)}, c(3)
FOR I = 0 TO 3
a.b(I) = I * 10
NEXT
PROC_TEST(a{}, c())
END
DEF PROC_TEST(x{}, z())
LOCAL i
FOR i = 0 TO 3
z(i) = x.b(i)
NEXT
ENDPROC
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Re: Passing substructure arrays to procedures
« Reply #2 on: Jul 13th, 2013, 05:48am » |
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OK. That's useful to know. However, maybe I wasn't quite clear on what I want. Let me adjust the code slightly to elucidate.
Code: DIM a{b(3), d(3)}, c(3)
FOR I = 0 TO 3
a.b(I) = I * 10
NEXT
PROC_TEST(a.b(), c())
...
REM do something with c()
...
PROC_TEST(a.d(), c())
...
REM do something with c()
...
END
DEF PROC_TEST(x(), z())
LOCAL i
FOR i = 0 TO 3
z(i) = x(i)
NEXT
ENDPROC
This won't work (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be asking the question), but I hope you get the idea.
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Re: Passing substructure arrays to procedures
« Reply #3 on: Jul 13th, 2013, 09:13am » |
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on Jul 13th, 2013, 05:48am, Matt wrote:
The syntax a.b() is not valid in BBC BASIC; there is no way of representing a 'whole array' when it is a structure member. This is what it says in the BB4W Help: "Normally a structure member can be treated in exactly the same way as a simple variable of the same type. However this is not so in the case of operations on entire arrays or entire structures which cannot be used with structure members":
http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin2.html#members
It is, I would suggest, quite unusual to want to be able to perform the same operation on two different structure members (such as your a.b array and your a.d array). If the two arrays are sufficiently 'compatible' in their format and their usage that it is meaningful to perform the same operation, could you not combine them into a single two-dimensional array:
Code: DIM a{b(3,1)}, c(3)
FOR I = 0 TO 3
a.b(I,0) = I * 10
a.b(I,1) = I * 11
NEXT
PROC_TEST(a{}, 0, c())
REM do something with c()
PROC_TEST(a{}, 1, c())
REM do something with c()
END
DEF PROC_TEST(x{}, j, z())
LOCAL i
FOR i = 0 TO 3
z(i) = x.b(i,j)
NEXT
ENDPROC
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Re: Passing substructure arrays to procedures
« Reply #4 on: Jul 13th, 2013, 1:21pm » |
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on Jul 13th, 2013, 09:13am, Richard Russell wrote:| It is, I would suggest, quite unusual to want to be able to perform the same operation on two different structure members (such as your a.b array and your a.d array). |
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I would normally agrre with you.
Quote:| If the two arrays are sufficiently 'compatible' in their format and their usage that it is meaningful to perform the same operation, could you not combine them into a single two-dimensional array. |
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I could do that, but I used seperate arrays due to naming. I'll have to use the code that I have been using, which is seperating them using CASE OF.
Thanks.
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