Because ControlLogix devices handle arrays differently than other PLCs, Kepware's Allen-Bradley ControlLogix Ethernet Driver handles arrays differently than other drivers.

1. It supports 3 dimensional arrays, whereas standard drivers only support 2 dimensions.
2. Individual elements of an array can be addressed directly.
3. Sub-arrays of data within the array can be addressed using offsets.

When addressing an element in an array or specifying an offset, the indexing/ordering of the data is 0-based. The number of elements to be displayed in an array reference are 1-based. When addressing elements or subsets in an array, the elements are referenced using square brackets and a range or sub-array of data is referenced using braces. There are two types of arrays: single-dimension arrays and multi-dimension arrays.

Single-Dimension Arrays
A 1x16 array example is shown below. The tag name is "IArray".

Example single-dimension array references are as follows:

• IArray [5] = 257. This is the fifth element in the array.
• IArray {5} = [73, 78, 84, 255, 256]. This is the first five elements in the array.
• IArray [10] {3} = [11, 12, 13]. This is an array of 3 elements starting at the tenth element.

Multi-Dimension Arrays
A 4x4 array example is shown below. The first row is 0 and the first column is 0. The tag name is "IArray".

Example multi-dimension array references are as follows:

• IArray [1,3] = 259. This is the last element in the second row of the array.
• IArray {4} = [73, 72, 84, 255]. This is an array of four elements with no offset.
• IArray [2, 0] {2} = [9, 10]. This is an array of two elements starting at an offset of the first element in the third row.