ACLONE()

Duplicate a multidimensional array

Syntax

ACLONE(<aSource>) --> aDuplicate

Arguments

<aSource> Name of the array to be cloned.

Returns

<aDuplicate> A new array pointer reference complete with nested array values.

Description

This function makes a complete copy of the array expressed as <aSource> and return a cloned set of array values.This provides a complete set of arrays values for all dimensions within the original array <aSource>

      LOCAL aOne, aTwo
      aOne := {"Harbour"," is ","POWER"}
      aTwo := ACLONE(aOne)       // Result: aTwo is {1, 2, 3}
      aOne[1] := "The Harbour Compiler"              // Result: aOne is {99, 2, 3}
                                 // aTwo is still {1, 2, 3}

Status

Ready

Compliance

Clipper will return NIL if the parameter is not an array.

Files

Library is vm

See Also

• ACOPY()
• ADEL()
• AINS()
• ASIZE()