Array question

#1 If your line of script really looks like this:

$TestArray[10];

Then, yes, you will get a parse error. TorqueScript does not require forward declaration of variables or arrays. So you need to assign it a type value to initialize it, even if it is nothing more than blank string.

$TestArray[10] = "";

#2 I'd phrase it like this: "TorqueScript does not support forward declaration of variables or arrays." You can't just declare them, you must define them.

On the up side, TorqueScript arrays are technically zero-based index, but in practice you can start at any spot - they're very like a Lua array in this respect. The down-side is that I've never done any profiling and the system might just fill up "unused" indices with empty entries in a vector-like construct on the engine side.

To illustrate:

$TestArray[3] = "Three";  // start at 3
$TestArray[23] = "Twenty Three";  // define 23 without using any intervening slots

<edit>
Thinking about this just now I realized that when you save a TorqueScript array it converts the name[subscript] to namesubscript.

%object = new SimSet();
%object.TestArray[8] = "More Testing";
// becomes this in TAML
<SimSet 
    TestArray8 = "More Testing"
/>

So I think each array "slot" is treated as a separate individual variable and the whole "array" thing is just syntactic sugar - works for me....

#3 Don't have to worry about unused indices filling up memory in TorqueScript because it doesn't actually implement real arrays:

// These variables
$TestArray[23] = 1;
$TestArray[2,3] = 2;
$TestArray[2,3,4] = 3;

// Are the same variables as below
$TestArray23 == 1; // true
$TestArray2_3 == 2; // true
$TestArray2_3_4 == 3; // true

#4 Thanks for the assistance, it was getting late last night.