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Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2016 7:04 pm**

this is something that has been bothering me for a long time now.

i really miss the possibility to access a structured pointer like an array:

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Protected *mem.struc

For i = 0 To 9
  Debug *mem[i]\bla
Next

same goes for strings:

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String$ = "ABC"

For i = 0 To 3
  Debug String$[i];\c
Next

i know there are dozen ways of how to achieve this, but it just isnt as small and sexy as the above code.

c ya,
nco2k

Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:18 pm**

I too miss the ability to arbitrarily walk the memory of a pointer as an array.

I know that you mentioned already knowing other ways to achieve this but I'll just drop the way I do it for others reading this thread who may not know a workaround:

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Structure SomeStruct
  a.i
  b.i
  c.i
EndStructure

Structure ArrayOfSomeStruct
  Offset.SomeStruct[0]
EndStructure

Define *Mem.ArrayOfSomeStruct=AllocateMemory(SizeOf(SomeStruct)*3)

*Mem\Offset[0]\a=1
*Mem\Offset[1]\b=2
*Mem\Offset[2]\c=3

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