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Re: Arrays in BASIC

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On 2 Jan 2022 as I do recall,
          Paul Stewart  wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Need to pick you brains on Arrays.
> 
> Looking at Arrays in the Archimedies User Guide (vintage July 1987), I 
> have come to the understanding that it is possible to declare an array 
> local to a function or procedure.  Having tried to do this, I keep getting 
> Syntax Error.
> 
> I am trying using: LOCAL DIM a$(1,1)
> 
> Also tried different permutations, but all come back with Syntax error.
> 
> Am I barking up the wrong tree here or just completely misunderstanding 
> the examples provided?
> 
> Any advice examples you can give, much appreciated.

>L.
   10 PROCarray
   16 PRINT D$(1)
   17 END


   20 DEF PROCarray
   30 LOCAL D$()
   40 DIM D$(7)
   50 D$(1)="hat"
   55 PRINT "array", D$(1)
   60 ENDPROC

>RUN
array     hat
Undimensioned array at line 16

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Arrays in BASIC Paul Stewart <narrowboat-paul@outlook.com> - 2022-01-02 20:36 +0000
  Re: Arrays in BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-01-02 21:01 +0000
    Re: Arrays in BASIC Paul Stewart <narrowboat-paul@outlook.com> - 2022-01-02 21:56 +0000
      Re: Arrays in BASIC Paul Stewart <narrowboat-paul@outlook.com> - 2022-01-02 22:18 +0000
    Re: Arrays in BASIC Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2022-01-02 22:04 +0000
      Re: Arrays in BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-01-02 22:43 +0000
        Re: Arrays in BASIC Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2022-01-02 23:18 +0000
        Re: Arrays in BASIC Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2022-01-03 09:46 +0000

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