Operator Array Index

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Operator () (Array Index)

Returns a reference to an element in an array

Syntax

Declare Operator () ( lhs() As T, ByRef rhs As Integer, ... ) ByRef As T

Parameters

• lhs
• rhs
• T

Description

This operator returns a reference to an element in an array. For multidimensional arrays, multiple indexes must be specified (up to the total number of dimensions of the array).

For any dimension d in array a, any index less than LBound(a, d) or greater than UBound(a, d) will result in a runtime error.

Remarks

Usage

result = lhs ( rhs [, ...] )

or

lhs ( rhs [, ...] ) = value

Differences from QB

• None

See also

• Operator [] (Pointer Index)

Examples

Dim array(0 To 4) As Integer = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }

For index As Integer = 0 To 4

    Print array(index);

Next

Print

will produce the output:

 0 1 2 3 4

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