12.3. Working with Collections

You now know about the different types of collections and the collection methods. You have seen some examples of working with associative arrays, nested tables and VARRAYs. Now it is time to dive into the details of manipulating collections in your programs. Topics in this section include:

• Exception handling with collections

• Declaring collection types

• Declaring and initializing collection variables

• Assigning values to collections

• Using collections of complex datatypes, such as collections of collections

• Working with sequential and nonsequential associative arrays