SPIN - variable arrays + .word[] or .byte[] suffix question

[Agent420]

This wasn't clear in the manual, and a quick search here didn't bring up anything similar...

If I have a long variable array, then want to access the high/low words from that variable, I thought I could do this:

VAR
· long matrix[20]

PUB main | x, y
· x := matrix[1].word[0]
· y := matrix[1].word[1]


But that fails during compilation with an 'Expected end of line' error at the period between matrix[1] and word[0]

I'm guessing you cannot combine the two on one line, as I eventually tried this and it worked:

PUB main | x, y, z
· z := matrix[1]
· x := z.word[0]
· y := z.word[1]


Is this even the best way to assign hi/lo words of a variable?· I was going to AND with a mask, but this seemed cleaner.



Post Edited (Agent420) : 5/5/2008 11:38:56 AM GMT

[Mike Green]

There's only one subscript allowed which is why "matrix[ 1 ].word[ 1 ]" is not allowed. You could do "matrix.word[1<<1+1]".

[Agent420]

Excuse my noobility with Spin, but how does that work?· Does the Word subscript follow the array, ie matrix.word[3] is lower word of matrix[1] (the array being zero based)?· martix.word[4]=upper word?