Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

Arrays

An array variable is used to store multiple values in a single variable. The simplest of these is with just a single element. So, if you were to declare this array, and it had 50 members, it would be something like this:

The number in the parentheses is 49 intentionally. It is not because I am ignoring Alaska. We start counting at zero, so this array contains 50 values, and is fixed. You assign data to each of the elements of the array like this:

The concept of an array can be difficult to envision (especially for accountants), so I ...