Can array size be declared by another variable?

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Hiya folks, I’ve got a bit of a weird one. It’s sort of in the title but whenever I use another variable to declare the length of an array I get something like this…
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After some fiddling got me nowhere I cut it all down into it’s basic parts.
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The array won’t always be 5, I’m only pretending it is for the bug test.
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The error still pops up…

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I’ve tried brackets, I’ve tried putting the brackets in brackets. I’ve tried putting it all in regular () brackets too. No luck at all.

If anyone could help that’d be brilliant!

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It’s not currently possible, but it might be possible in the future.

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ahhh, that’s annoying.

If anyone in the future needs a solution. I’ve a subroutine for every value it could be and call it up through concatenation.

*gosub {("shiftArray_length_003_")&{(param_1)&"_count"}}

results in the word 'shiftArray_length_003_X ', where x is the length of an array with the same name as the string in param_1 (confusing I know, sorry lol)

Then I create a subroutine like so

*label shiftarray_length_003_5
*temp_array shiftArray 5
*return

If there’s a lot of numbers it could be, I’d suggest using gosub_scene and have a file dedicated to all those numbers.
Some way you could improve this is adding params to set the array name and if you need it, link to use other array_length subroutines if one array at one certain length needs to do something extra special

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