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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.

jerico2day wrote: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.

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.

@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.

Great, thanks guys!