you can not use Global to make a variable in to an array if that variable was already defined.

code:

---

$temp = 0
? "vartype = " vartype($temp)
;the next line will fail
global $temp[10]
? "vartype = " vartype($temp)

---

but you do not have this problem with DIM

code:

---

$temp = 0
? "vartype = " vartype($temp)
;$temp is redefined as an array
dim $temp[10]
? "vartype = " vartype($temp)

---

The reason I want to use Global Vs Dim is that this variable must exist outside the confines of the UDF it was created in.

on the other side you could also define that by doing this (simplified):

$temp = yourfunction()

function yourfunction()
    dim $temp[20]
    $yourfunction = $temp
endfunction

---

(it will get a global variable/array)

hth

J.

[ 13 February 2002: Message edited by: jpols ]

[ 13 February 2002: Message edited by: jpols ]

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code:

---

$array = 1
global $array[10]

---

code:

---

$array = 1
dim $array[10]

---

$array = 1
global $array[10]
? ubound($array)

; Create an instance of $array in the global scope

$var = 1

 

; Now create an instance of $array in the local scope.  This will hide the

; global instance.

dim $var[10]

 

"In local scope the variable is "+VarTypeName($var)+@CRLF

foo()

  

Function foo()

	"In global scope the variable is "+VarTypeName($var)+@CRLF

EndFunction

$array = 1

ReDim $array[10]

? ubound($array)