Dynamic Array Attributes

With dynamic arrays, the user may define data for any number of array positions up to a maximum (typically 200). This is only of particular use where the number of array positions is not fixed. For example, attributes POS and ORI, arrays of size 3, will never need less than three values. Where dynamic arrays are defined and no values are set, Marine DARs will return the error condition 'Attribute not found'.

The same technique is also applied to text attributes. In earlier versions of Marine all text attributes were of fixed length (for example, STEX could be of length 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105 or 120). With dynamic text, the user may define text of any length up to a maximum (typically 120). Where dynamic text is defined and no text has been provided, DARs will return the error condition ‘Attribute unset’.