taoyue.com: Learn Pascal tutorial - Multidimensional Arrays

You can have arrays in multiple dimensions:

type datatypeidentifier = array [enum_type1, enum_type2] of datatype;

The comma separates the dimensions, and referring to the array would be done with:

a [5, 3]

Two-dimensional arrays are useful for programming board games. A tic tac toe board could have these type and variable declarations:

   type
      StatusType = (X, O, Blank);
      BoardType = array[1..3,1..3] of StatusType;
   var
      Board : BoardType;

You could initialize the board with:

   for count1 := 1 to 3 do
      for count2 := 1 to 3 do
         Board[count1, count2] := Blank;

You can go into three- or higher-dimensional arrays.

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