ARRAY declaration in GOSUB routines.

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Wow I did not know that about erase in subs in main this works fine!

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Dim a(3)
a(1) = 1
Print a(1); "prints 1 with no error"
Erase a
Print a(1); "error! the array has been freed and erased in the SUB"

I've used erase quite a bit, guess it's always been with ones dim'd in main or shared from main. oh let's try that!

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Dim Shared a(3)
foo


Sub foo
    a(1) = 1
    Print a(1); "prints 1 with no error"
    Erase a
    Print a(1); "error! the array has been freed and erased in the SUB"
End Sub

yes, no problem sharing from main!

@Bartok maybe that will work for you?

Yes, it works. An it works also like that:

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OPTION _EXPLICIT

DIM a(3)

foo



SUB foo

    SHARED a()

    a(1) = 1

    PRINT a(1); "prints 1 with no error"

    ERASE a

    PRINT a(1); "prints correctly 0 with no errors"

END SUB

But I don't want to do that in my code, because those arrays are local and there is absolutely no need to share them with the main code.
S, if the arrays is defined in the main code, ERASE set to "0" or "null". If the array is local, ERASE deletes it.

OK I can understand that, so Steve already pointed to sol'n of just using REDIM on temporary arrays, forget ERASE, REDIM you get 2 commands for price of 1! ;-))

BTW you can use REDIM in place of DIM for everything! Option _Explicit won't mind.