Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is it:
array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];
Would this also work for a 2-dimensional array?

Q2.  If I have a 2 dimensional dynamic array, how would I clear it? Would it look something like:
array[][]=null;

Q3.  With the same 2-dimensional dynamic array, how do I set the size of the sencond dimension?  Is it:
array[].length = 5;

Q4. Again with the same array, how do I get the length of each dimension?  Is it:
int x = array.length;
int y = array[].length;

Thanks,
Scott Sanders

stonecobra wrote:

> Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is it:
> array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];

No.

I presume that's a typo for

	array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..7];

but it's one way, and perhaps the simplest, asssuming you mean 5th in the sense of array[0] being the first.

> Would this also work for a 2-dimensional array?

Yes, but only in the outermost dimension.

> Q2.  If I have a 2 dimensional dynamic array, how would I clear it? Would it look something like:
> array[][]=null;

What do you mean by clear?

- set all values to zero?  I'm not sure if

	array[][] = 0;

works.  If not, then this should:

	foreach (T[] row; array) row[] = 0;

where T is whatever type the individual elements are.

- make it a null array, i.e. one with no elements?

	array = null;

> Q3.  With the same 2-dimensional dynamic array, how do I set the size of the sencond dimension?  Is it:
> array[].length = 5;

Multidimensional dynamic arrays are not rectangular.  They are simply arrays of arrays.  Each array within the outer array has an independent length.

But you can do something like

	foreach (inout T[] row; array) row.length = 5;

> Q4. Again with the same array, how do I get the length of each dimension?  Is it:
> int x = array.length;
> int y = array[].length;

Multidimensional dynamic arrays are not rectangular.  They are simply arrays of arrays.  Each array within the outer array has an independent length.

But if you have set up all rows to have the same length, then you need only interrogate one of them:

	int y = array[0].length;

If you really want dynamic rectangular arrays, you can either define your own class to do it, pick up one that someone's written (there probably are some around), or wait in the hope that Norbert's proposal

http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~nen10015/documents/D-multidimarray.html

be implemented.

Stewart.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:
> stonecobra wrote:
> 
>> Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is it:
>> array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> I presume that's a typo for
> 
>     array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..7];

or

array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..6]

if it's an array of 7.

"Brad Anderson" <brad@dsource.dot.org> escribió en el mensaje
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| Stewart Gordon wrote:
|| stonecobra wrote:
||
||| Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is
||| it:
||| array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];
||
||
|| No.
||
|| I presume that's a typo for
||
||     array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..7];
|
| or
|
| array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..6]
|
| if it's an array of 7.

Wrong there. Slices are exclusive to the end (can someone tell me if that's
the right wording?)
array[5..7]=array[5]~array[6];

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Carlos Santander Bernal

Carlos Santander B. wrote:
> "Brad Anderson" <brad@dsource.dot.org> escribió en el mensaje
> news:caknrk$1kee$1@digitaldaemon.com
> | Stewart Gordon wrote:
> || stonecobra wrote:
> ||
> ||| Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is
> ||| it:
> ||| array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];
> ||
> ||
> || No.
> ||
> || I presume that's a typo for
> ||
> ||     array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..7];
> |
> | or
> |
> | array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..6]
> |
> | if it's an array of 7.
> 
> Wrong there. Slices are exclusive to the end (can someone tell me if that's
> the right wording?)
> array[5..7]=array[5]~array[6];
> 
> -----------------------
> Carlos Santander Bernal
> 
> 

Yep, I think that's worded correctly.  If I would have followed my own logic like the 5..6, I would have had 0..3, but you're correct that it's 0..4 and 5..7

Damn am I lazy.  Can't even do a small example before I posted.

BA

"Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294@msn.com> wrote in message news:calhks$2v9e$3@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Brad Anderson" <brad@dsource.dot.org> escribió en el mensaje
> news:caknrk$1kee$1@digitaldaemon.com
> | Stewart Gordon wrote:
> || stonecobra wrote:
> ||
> ||| Q1.  What is the 'D' way to remove the 5th item from an array of 7? Is
> ||| it:
> ||| array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..2];
> ||
> ||
> || No.
> ||
> || I presume that's a typo for
> ||
> ||     array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..7];
> |
> | or
> |
> | array = array[0..4] ~ array[5..6]
> |
> | if it's an array of 7.
>
> Wrong there. Slices are exclusive to the end (can someone tell me if that's
> the right wording?)

In STL it's called an asymmetric range, with the notation [from,to). The ) represents that it's one past the end.

> array[5..7]=array[5]~array[6];
>
> -----------------------
> Carlos Santander Bernal
>
>

"Matthew" <admin@stlsoft.dot.dot.dot.dot.org> escribió en el mensaje
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| In STL it's called an asymmetric range, with the notation [from,to). The )
| represents that it's one past the end.
|

Understandable, but ambiguous. (from, to] is also asymmetric. (not too
serious, btw)
Anyway, that'd be only in the docs, right? Because there's no way to use
that notation in D, is there?

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Carlos Santander Bernal