Arrays Question

[Luffy123]

I'm reading the doc on arrays and they show this example.

var price : array 1988 .. 1990, 1 .. 12 of int

var sum : int := 0
for year : 1988 .. 1990 % For each year
for month : 1 .. 12 % For each month
sum := sum + price (year, month)
end for
end for

but when I put this in turing.. it doesn't work.. says variable has no value and is referring to price(year,month)

can someone explain why and how to fix it?

and also what does

array 1 .. * of int

mean?

what does the * do?

[Dreadnought]

Notice that the example in the Turing documentation has '...' in one line meaning that they are excluding some code.

This code would set the values of the array. Without such code your asking the program to take the sum of a blank array.

You could replace the ... by this for example:

Turing:

for i : 0 .. 35     price (1988 + i div 12, 1 + i rem 12) := 50 - i end for

This will set the value of the price for the first month to 50 and reduce it by 1 each month.


The * is used when you create an array and give it values immediately but may not know how many values you will give it. The * means that Turing will look at the values and determine the appropriate size for the array. Note that you can only do this for the upper bound of the array.

For example:

Turing:

var myPrimes : array 1..* of int := init (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37)

I didn't count the number of primes I entered, but Turing can count for me. (It should create an array 1..12)

The * is much more useful for procedures and functions that will take an array as argument, but not know the size of the array beforehand.
For example:

Turing:

fcn largestElement (integers : array  1 .. * of int) : int     var maxSoFar: int := 0     for i : 1.. upper (integers)         maxSoFar := max (integers (i), maxSoFar)     end for     result maxSoFar end largestElement

This function can be used for an array of integers of any size.

Hope this helps.

[Untouchable221]

I need help for a school assignment. Pls I need it answered as soon as possible. How do set a lower and upper bounds for arrays?

[TokenHerbz]

code:

%%lower is set compile time, change that 1 to a zero or a 3 and run it. var a : array 1 .. 5 of int %%upper can be set the same way, but it can be flexible. put lower(a) put upper(a) put "*" %%here the lower value is actually 1, again, (its where the array starts) %% and when you run this, zero is the upper (confuzing?!) var b : flexible array 1 .. 0 of int put lower(b) put upper(b) put "*" %%setting a new upper limit, say we spawn some bullets in! pewpew new b, upper(b) + 2 %%take the ZERO bullets we have, and add 2 :) put lower(b) put upper(b) %%turing is really bad with handling arrays imo, but there are work arounds