From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Passing multidimentional arrays
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:24:12 -0300
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, clint.allen wrote:
->specify the column subscript, but not the row subscript.  The problem is, I
->have several arrays (or tables) of different sizes, and I'm trying to pass
	The easiest way to do this is to use a 1d array and fake the other
dimensions:  But this does require passing the Column size to the
function.
->
->float table_lookup(float table[][], float reference)
		  ...float table[], float reference, int ColSize)
->{
->    float tableValue
->    int stop, pointer, xRef, yRef;
->    for (stop = 0, pointer = 1; stop != 1; pointer++)
->    {
->        if (reference == table[pointer][0])
                        ...table[pointer*ColSize])
->        {
->        yRef = pointer;
->        stop = 1;
->        }
->    }
->    for (stop = 0, pointer = 1; stop != 1; pointer++)
->    {
->        if (reference == table[0][pointer])
                        ...table[pointer])
->        {
->        xRef = pointer;
->        stop = 1;
->        }
->    }
->    return tableValue[yRef][xRef];
   //What the hell is 'tableValue'?  Did you mean table or is this a
global variable?  If you mean table:
      return table[yRef*ColSize+xRef];
->}
->
->Can anybody help?  Yes.
->Clint Allen

	Endlisnis
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