How can you store floats in an array?

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I’m trying to store float values in an array but it’s insisting that they must be stored as ‘int’.
I need to have the fractional parts utilized so even though I could convert the floats with int(float) it’s not what I’m looking for as the solution.

How can you store floats in such an array?

float dimx=800;
float dimy=850;
float[] exposure = new float[dimx*dimy]

returns error:
Type mismatch, “float” does not match with “int”

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static final int ROWS = 850, COLS = 800, GRID = ROWS * COLS;
final float[] exposures = new float[GRID];

void setup() {
  println(exposures.length); // 680000
  exit();
}
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Hi ProsExplorer,

the reason why you get an error is because the compiler prevents you to do something like this:

float[] exposure = new float[25.4];

You can’t do that and if dimx and dimy are float number, nothing can stop you from doing something like the line above.

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jb4x,
Thanks for letting me know.

Is there any other way to create an array that would store float or double numbers?

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You are messing up the different elements. Let’s break it down:

  • float[] means that you want an array of float
  • exposure is the name of the array
  • new float[n] create an array of float containing n elements.

So you can store int, float, boolean, PVector… Anything your want.

The thing you can’t do is having n being a non integer because it makes no sense to have 2.46 elements in your array for example. Only integer values works here.

For example:

int[] intArray = new intArray[10] // create an array called intArray containing 10 integer values
float[] floatArray = new float[27] // create an array called floatArray containing 27 float values
PVector[] vectArray = new PVector[167] // create an array called vectArray containing 167 PVector

int[] intArray2 = new int[13.856] // will throw an error because 13.856 is not an integer
int[] intArray3 = new int[-56] // will throw an error because -56 is negative
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