an array question

[Deborah D Brown]

I'm going thru a book learning about web services, and i'm on the part about
returning arrays. Examine:

Dim myArray(2) as pcdebbArray

This is an array of TWO elements or THREE? The book states this is an array
of three items, I know it supposed to be zero based so when I reference them
it will be myArray(0), my Array(1), etc, but this really confused me?

[Paul Mc]

G'day Deborah.

>Dim myArray(2) as pcdebbArray

Yes this can be confusing. That declaration is functionally identical to:
Dim myArray(0 to 2) as pcdebbArray
i.e. the 2 declares the Upper Bound of the array, when the array's lower
bound is 0.

The easiest way IMO to remember is just to mentally translate
Dim myArray(x) -> Dim myArray(0 to x).

HTH,
Cheers,
Paul