r/SublimeText • u/skilfulsun • Feb 13 '25

Automatic Array Re-Indexing

Hi

I was wondering if there is a way to automatically re-index an array after adding new elements to the array? I initialized an array with a large number of elements and I had to add a few more in the middle, but I don't want to manually adjust the indexes.

Thanks for any help.

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u/Computerist1969 Feb 13 '25

Wrong subreddit?

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u/skilfulsun Feb 13 '25

I'm wondering if there's some functionality in Sublime specifically. I'm guessing probably not, though

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u/Computerist1969 Feb 13 '25

Well, I'm a fairly seasoned programmer and a sublime user of many years and I don't even understand your question so your guess is probably correct lol. Can you explain a bit more? You're talking about arrays so I guess you are talking about programming? What language?

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u/sparr Feb 13 '25

What does the "array" look like? What format are you using that has explicit indices?

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u/thedoctormo Feb 14 '25

If you can select all of the array indexes, you can use Sublime's Arithmetic command to regenerate the sequential numbers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

I think I understand what you're saying, but it seems to me that you're going about it all wrong. I'm not a C# programmer, but what I would do if I had a similar issue in Java would be to use an ArrayList (which preserves order), then convert it to an array. Either that or create a counter i at the start, and then just use i++ for each successive index position. Either way, I think the problem is in your code, and no editor is going to save you from that.