How much memory do Arrays hog up???

[Hambone]

I have an array:
Dim MapTable(1 To 50, 1 To 12)

I was reading that each array element can hold 64K characters, AND the memory is reserved in advanced

I'm pretty sure this is wrong. but if I took
64K x 50 x 12

That would mean that array is hoggin 38Megs of RAM??????


Thanks for info

[kedaman]

not at all, if that array you are using is an array of variants each elemnt will take up 16 bytes, for any numeric value and 22 bytes + string length for strings. So in case you don't have variable contents of the items i suggest you use the datatype you prefer to have the items stored as.

Also, an array requires 20 bytes + 4 bytes for each dimension + the amount of data each item require

[Hambone]

I'm running ME now (missing 2K) - so I downloading a memory tool and took a look at how much memory the application was taking up.........

It didn't look that bad at all.

Thanks,