Commodore PET - Array Header

This time the pointer addresses a location in upper core (8187 in this program)
that contains the string:
8188 8190
8187! 8189 ! 8191
~
HI! H 0
Array Storage Format
Arrays are stored in the Array Area of user program memory (see Figure
6-2). Arrays may be floating point, integer, or string and are stored in the
order in which they are created by the program. The type of array is dis-
tinguished by the way in which the two-character array name is stored,
exactly the same as for variable names. An array is stored with a header
followed by the elements of the array, in the general form:
~ He_a_d_e_r 1 E1,m," 0 1 EI,m,," [~] EI,m,"" 1
(Elements are stored in reverse order for strings.)
Ali types of arrays have the same header format. The header contains
seven bytes plus two bytes for each array dimension beyond 1.
ARRAY HEADER
1st
2nd
Total
l
bytes
Number of
Last
dimensions
dimension
char
char
Low High
Low
sife High
Byte'
2 3 4 5 6
Like floating point variables, floating point array elements each have
five bytes. However, for integers the unused three bytes, and for strings the
unused two bytes, are dropped for array elements.
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