Erase Statement

Reinitializes the elements of fixed-size arrays and deallocates dynamic-array storage space.

Erase array

The array argument is the name of the array variable to be erased.

Remarks

It is important to know whether an array is fixed-size (ordinary) or dynamic because Erase behaves differently depending on the type of array. Erase recovers no memory for fixed-size arrays. Erase sets the elements of a fixed array as follows:

Erase frees the memory used by dynamic arrays. Before your program can refer to the dynamic array again, it must redeclare the array variable's dimensions using a ReDim statement.

The following example illustrates the use of the Erase statement.

Dim NumArray(9)
Dim DynamicArray()
ReDim DynamicArray(9)   ' Allocate storage space.
Erase NumArray   ' Each element is reinitialized.
Erase DynamicArray   ' Free memory used by array.

Requirements

Version 1

See Also

Dim Statement | Nothing | ReDim Statement