How to replicate the .extend feature in Godot

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I'm trying to add two items to an array at the same time, so I tried to use the .extend feature like in Python only to realize that this is not supported in Godot. Any suggestions?

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It's like you said, the Array class does not offer an 'extend' method or something comparable (it does provide '.append' though). You can however concatenate array by simply using the '+' operator, just like in Python.

array1 += [2, 3]

'array1' will now contain the values '2' and '3' at its back. Now this isn't technically the same (I believe) since GDScript will actually create a new Array from the two existing and then set array1 equal to that new one. Python's 'extend' method modifies the first Array directly.
I don't think this will matter though in most cases.

by (305 points)

Pool arrays can be used too, if one of the available types is enough.

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