Questions tagged [array]

A question asked here reminded me of a discussion I had with a fellow programmer. He argued that zero-based arrays should be replaced with one-based arrays since arrays being zero-based is an implementation detail that originates from the way arrays…

Could you please show me an example how to compute the location of an element in a multi-dimensional array. It is illustrated in Robert Sebesta's book Concept of Programming Languages that location of an element is given by the…

I am working on an algorithm whose specs says that it accepts 32 bit input (long type). My actual data is 14 bytes e.g 11:12:12:04:DD I have created sub arrays like subarray1[4]={'1','1',':',1} // 32 bits Can I pass this subarray to my…

When teaching students Python lists (which are more like arrays, not linked-lists) I'd like to use metaphor of list being a collection of boxes put in row. But this doesn't work well: indexes are important to be numbers, but in my example indexes…