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GN0001
Barite | Level 11

Hello team,

What are the differences between these two arrays?

array thisitem{*} $5 itemA itemB itemC

array array{3} itemA itemB itemC

Regards,

@Blue

 

 

Blue Blue
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tarheel13
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

$5 means the elements of the array will be character with length 5. without putting $, it would be a numeric array. 

SASKiwi
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@tarheel13 wrote:

$5 means the elements of the array will be character with length 5. without putting $, it would be a numeric array. 


Unless the elements of the array already exist in which case they will retain their existing type.

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