pointers and lists

[jerico2day]

Hey all, I'm designing something using pointers to keep track of list items for speed reasons. I'm wondering if a pointers address will ever change in a list element? I've done some tests where I added and deleted elements and no other elements changed their pointer address, but I want to make sure this is actually the case over the runtime of a program.

[Demivec]

Hey all, I'm designing something using pointers to keep track of list items for speed reasons. I'm wondering if a pointers address will ever change in a list element? I've done some tests where I added and deleted elements and no other elements changed their pointer address, but I want to make sure this is actually the case over the runtime of a program.

List elements won't ever change addresses once they are added. So, unless you delete them and add them back they'll always be at the same address.

[STARGÅTE]

You are right, an element remains as long as it exists its address!

This is different from the array to be increased with ReDim, hheir field-addresses can change, if the array is larger.

[Demivec]

@jerico2day: One additional note, you can also sort the elements in a Linked-List (or otherwise reorder them) and they will still be at the same addresses because only an element's links are changed and not its address.

[jerico2day]

Great, thanks guys!