# RangeError: invalid array length — What went wrong?

> The error might appear when attempting to produce an {{jsxref("Array")}} or {{jsxref("ArrayBuffer")}} with an invalid length, which includes Negative length, via the constructor or setting the {{jsxref("Array/length", "length")}} property.

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The error might appear when attempting to produce an {{jsxref("Array")}} or {{jsxref("ArrayBuffer")}} with an invalid length, which includes

Negative length, via the constructor or setting the {{jsxref("Array/length", "length")}} property. Non-integer length, via the constructor or setting the {{jsxref("Array/length", "length")}} property. (The ArrayBuffer constructor coerces the length to an integer, but the Array constructor does not.) Exceeding the maximum length supported by the platform. For arrays, the maximum length is 232-1. For ArrayBuffer, the maximum length is 231-1 (2GiB-1) on 32-bit systems, or 233 (8GiB) on 64-bit systems. This can happen via the constructor, setting the length property, or array methods that implicitly set the length property (such as {{jsxref("Array/push", "push")}} and {{jsxref("Array/concat", "concat")}}).

If you are creating an Array using the constructor, you probably want to use the literal notation instead, as the first argument is interpreted as the length of the Array. Otherwise, you might want to clamp the length before setting the length property, or using it as argument of the constructor.

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