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Web Programming

Notes ASP Code:
<%
Dim myFixedArray(3) ‘Fixed size array
Dim myDynArray() ‘Dynamic size array

%>
We are going to focus on fixed size arrays first and cover dynamic arrays later on in this lesson.
Assigning values to an array
Let’s fill up our fixed size array with values. Our fixed array is going to store the names of
famous people. To assign a value to an array you need to know three things:
 The name of the array

 The value you want to store
 The position in the array where you want to store the value.
An array is a group of variables that you can access by specifying the position inside the array.
Our array myFixedArray has four positions: 0, 1, 2 and 3. Let’s assign some values to our array.

Example:
ASP Code:

<%
Dim myFixedArray(3) ‘Fixed size array
myFixedArray(0) = “Albert Einstein”
myFixedArray(1) = “Mother Teresa”
myFixedArray(2) = “Bill Gates”
myFixedArray(3) = “Martin Luther King Jr.”
%>
ASP Arrays are Zero based!

If you’re a programmer you might look at that above example and thing “Hey, you only
allocated three elements for that array, but you assigned four values! Well, this can be done
because arrays in ASP are zero based. This means when you declare fixed array of size X then
you can assign values for each value from 0 through X.
Below is perfectly functional ASP code that will go through our array and print out the contents
of each element.

Example:
ASP Code:
<%
Dim myFixedArray(3) ‘Fixed size array
myFixedArray(0) = “Albert Einstein”

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