Associative arrays

[Mortimer Jazz]

Hi Guys, I don't work with associative arrays much, and just want to condense some code.

I've got 3 main arrays, one of which is associative.
For time-saving (and code-saving) reasons I won't go into here I thought I'd declare them all within a master array like so:

theArrays = [artistArray=[],titleArray=[],infoArray=[]];

This is fine, but it appears I can't also declare the sub-arrays like this.
For example, one sub-array is infoArray["album"] = [];

and I was hoping to do something like this:

theArrays = [artistArray=[],titleArray=[],infoArray=[], infoArray["album"] = []];

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This doesn't work and I just wondered if I was making a simple mistake somewhere or whether I'm just not allowed to do it this way.

[ericlin]

Array in Flash are indexed by numbers.

Genuine Object might be the thing you want. The syntax "infoArray["album"] = [];" is the way we access object properties.

Since an Array is also an Object, we still can use that syntax, but it is another story.

I would like to create theArrays like this:

theArrays = {artistArray:{}, titleArray:{}, infoArray:{album:[]}};

[Mortimer Jazz]

Thanks, but I was hoping to avoid using the Object object, as I intend to use properties of the Array object to perform sorting later on. I could have sworn MM were claiming support for associative arrays in their pre-release bumpf for MX04.
It's no biggie. The code I've got works, it's just not as condensed as I would like.

I still think if it lets me assign an array as a property of the Array object then I should be able to go one deeper, but I can't even get it to work with a number based index.

[edit - okay I've worked out why now. The infoArray doesn't get initialised before I try to intialise the sub-array. If I declare infoArray first outside of theArrays array I can then declare the subArrays inside theArray array without any problems. For example:
infoArray=[];
theArrays = [artistArray=[],titleArray=[],infoArray["pic"]=[]]; //works
Cheers for the suggestion though :].

[farafiro]

smelling like u r gonna file a mp3 player soon mate

[Mortimer Jazz]

your nose never lets you down Faffy
Just upgrading an old one, but from the bottom up

[farafiro]

lol
okey, so I have a questionif u r interested and a VB-er
I know there is a code to read all the files in a spacefic folder
it's not an AS but I need it if u know it
this is to make an mp3 player also, but on the fly, if u get what I mean

[Mortimer Jazz]

I can help you if you want the php equiv, but not VB I'm afraid

[farafiro]

would it do what I want, here it is:
to get all the files name + extentions from a folder
import this to flash
store it in an array
play it

[Mortimer Jazz]

Yep that's do-able, but you may be best off asking in the scripting forum. I only have a php script to do that.

[farafiro]

and??
ahuh
so, would u please forword that code for me
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