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Freeing Dynamic Arrays

Do you have to manually release memory allocated by creating a dynamic
array using ReDim? In other words, if I have the following code:

ReDim Test(1000)
For i = 0 To 1000
Test(i) = "test value " & i
Next

Do have I have set Test = Nothing to prevent a memory leak?

Thanks,
Dave
Jun 27 '08 #1
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Firstly, arrays as you describe them are not "dynamic" - the VB.NET "Redim"
keyword simply creates a new array and copies the contents to it.
When an array goes out of scope, it is marked for garbage collection, so you
do not need to do anything.
Peter

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Do you have to manually release memory allocated by creating a dynamic
array using ReDim? In other words, if I have the following code:

ReDim Test(1000)
For i = 0 To 1000
Test(i) = "test value " & i
Next

Do have I have set Test = Nothing to prevent a memory leak?

Thanks,
Dave
Jun 27 '08 #2

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