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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MS QuickBASIC maximum array size?
Message-ID: <20698@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:11:05 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.015926.10404@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
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In article <1991Jan30.015926.10404@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> byoung@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Brian Young) writes:
>I am writing a program in QuickBASIC which requires an integer array of 40,000 
>elements.  When I try to run the (compiled) program, it gives an "out of 

40,000 elements? Wow how did you do that? I think QB is limited to 32767
elements in one array. I think because it uses an integer offset.

You could have two arrays a 20k a piece and if you index is > 20 then
subtract 20k from the index  and use the second array.






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