Hello people of SB! You might remember me, probably not... but anyways i have come to ask a question. Could anyone explain the DIM function to me? thanks to anyone who helps!

it defines either arrays, or variables(arrays contain data of up to 4 dimensions) examples of DIM DIM VARIABLE DIM ARRAY[w,h,l] it stores data in a certain order

use arrays for things like map data or save data.

thanks!

Don't limit yourself by only using them for maps/saves. They are very useful as they are not fixed size, and can be directly iterated through loops.

Let me know if this helps

with the code I posted you could do something like FOR I=0 TO LEN(X)-1 SPSET I,1+I:SPOFS I,X[I],180 NEXT to place multiple sprites, etc. There's plenty you can do with DIM

that did help levi! i just saw this...

better late than never! gladit was useful for you

hey! I think im starting to understand more. Could you possibly explain a simple program you could use DIM in?

acls:input "file: ",A$ dim numbers[0],b load "dat:"+A$,numbers for i=0 to len(numbers)-1 inc b,numbers(i) next ?b

loads a data file and displayes the sum of the data.

hey thanks!