Named array numbers

okay.. I know the easy way to avoid this but

If you have an array which has subarrays which have a string as the index (so for example MyArray["Apple"].price, MyArray["Bananna"].price etc) can the entries still be accessed as numbers? like if "Apple" was the first index in the array, then MyArray[0] would be the same as MyArray["Apple"]. I guess it would because surely it's flash that is converting it to allow a string as an index, so there is a number there.. but not sure.

To find the index for apple you could do, trace(myArray.indexOf("Apple")); and you would get its array position is that what you need? if the index is not found you will get the value -1 so if myArray.indexOf("Pear")==-1 you would see there is no pear and you can myArray.push("Pear");

mmm.. forgot you could do that.. so that does seam to say that with names, they still have numbers.. so myArray[0] (if the index returns the same) is the same as myArray["Apple"]...

thanks

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Hi,
The way you have your array looks more like an associative array (object array) hence the .price on each, I don't think they have a length attribute but you can loop though the props of associative arrays to get a count.

PHP Code:

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var cnt:Number = 0;
for(var id:String in myArray)
{
    cnt++;
    var val:Object = myArray[id];
    trace(cnt + " / " + id + " = " + val);
} 


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Hi,

Unless of course you are using multi dimensional arrays

PHP Code:

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var myArray1:Array = new Array("Apple","Banana");

trace(myArray1["Apple"]);
trace(myArray1[0]);

trace(myArray1.indexOf("Apple"));

trace("---------------------------");

var myArray2:Array = new Array(["Apple"],["Banana"]);

trace(myArray2["Apple"]);
trace(myArray2[0]);

trace(myArray2.indexOf("Apple")); 


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notice the difference

yeah, it's and associative array but it wasn't more about the total length but the index of each element. thanks though

Hi,

Then i believe you need to reference them each by name.

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