College of Information Technology Information （信息技术学院信息）.pdf

College of Information Technology Information network department Programming with Visual Basic II ==================================================== Arrays in Visual Basic 6 An array is a collection of simple variables of the same type to which the computer can efficiently assign a list of values. Array variables have the same kinds of names as simple variables. An array is a consecutive group of memory locations that all have the same name and the same type. To refer to a particular location or element in the array, we specify the array name and the array element position number. The Individual elements of an array are identified using an index. Arrays have upper and lower bounds and the elements have to lie within those bounds. Each index number in an array is allocated individual memory space and therefore users must evade declaring arrays of larger size than required. We can declare an array of any of the basic data types including variant, user-defined types and object variables. The individual elements of an array are all of the same data type. Declaring arrays: Arrays may be declared as Public (in a code module), module or local. Module arrays are declared in the general declarations using keyword Dim or Private. Local arrays are declared in a procedure using Dim. Array must be declared explicitly with keyword As. There are two types of arrays in Visual Basic namely: Fixed-Size Array: The size of array always remains the same-size doesnt change during the program execution. When an upper bound is specified in the declaration, a Fixed-array is created. The upper limit should always be within the range of long data