Removing an index from an array

[Jason]

Is there a way to remove an index from an array.

For example:

An array with only strings entered into the x dimension (y and z index are not used).
x1 = "one"
x2 = "two"
x3 = "three"
x4 = "four"
x5 = "five"

If I went through the above index printing out all the values in a text box one line at a time I would get the following:

one
two
three
four
five

I want to be able to remove x index 3 (the one that has the "three" string in it) so the output would then be:

one
two
four
five

How would I do this? I see how to write new values and strings in the index and increase it's dimension (size) but how do I remove a value from the index and reduce it's dimension (size)?

Jason

[Jason]

Anyone?

Jason

[Pixelthief]

What I do to format the array object is to iterate through the array and copy/paste everything into a new array, save that array to a temp file, and load that temp file into the original array. I do that since a lot of data in my level editor gets replaced by "0"'s, and being an associated array I can compress the file size that way.

Just do something like this:


*On Whatever Action
=Start Fast Loop "ReduceArray" for #(XIndexSize("Array")) loops

*On Fast Loop "ReduceArray"
=Write String (GetStringAtX("Array", LoopIndex("ReduceArray"))) to X = (LoopIndex("ReduceArray")) to object "TempArray"

*On Whatever Action
=Save array "TempArray" to file (Apppath$+"TempArray.arr")
=Load array "Array" from file (Apppath$+"TempArray.arr")
=Delete File (Apppath$+"TempArray.arr") by using the File Object (its included in your MMF2 objects)