Reset/empty string ARRAY$ ?

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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 4223	Posted: 12:08pm 11 Mar 2025         twofingers said     CaptainBoing said   ... and the syntactically accepted LENGTH is ignored for single variables. I think this extends to all 'mite flavours - anyone?... I think this is only correct for PicoMites for lengths of 8 characters or more. - Each MMBasic variable takes ~64 bytes in the variable table. - Most of this is used by the name, type, dimensions, etc. - 8 of these bytes are used for storage, enough for a 64-bit FLOAT, INTEGER, a very short string (7/8 chars? - but not on Micromites or currently MMB4L) or a pointer into the heap for a larger string or array. - Space on the heap is always allocated in 256 byte pages ... hence a larger string always taking 256 bytes and the minimum allocation for an array being 256 bytes. Best wishes, Tom