Hi,
  Sorry if I am posting to the wrong group.  I am running in to a problem
and I am hoping someone can help:
Basically, I am created a record type and want to assign it to a dynamic
array then by getting a record count set the array length.

For example
Type TAnimal = record
  typ: string
  legs: Integer;
  brothers: Array of string;
end;

var dogs: array of TAnimal

I later ...

SetLength(dog,1);
...
i := 1;
With .. Do begin ...
  While NOT EOF Do Begin
    Dog[i].type := 'Mutt';
    inc(i);  Setlength(dog,i);
    end{While};
  end{With...};

All this works but when I assign something to Dog[i] it bombs.  What can I
do?

Thank you,
Christopher

Dynamic arrays are 0-based, not 1-based.  When you say SetLength(Dogs,1) the
first element is Dogs[0].

Thus you always set the length to the actual number of elements (n) that you
want, then reference 0 to n-1.

news:3b5732d4_1@dnews...

This would go in delphi.objectpascal.

Your problem is that dynamic arrays are 0-based.