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var employee:Array = [15, "Barbara", "Jay"];
You can nest brackets to simulate multidimensional arrays. You can nest arrays up to 256
levels deep. The following code creates an array called ticTacToe with three elements; each
element is also an array with three elements:
var ticTacToe:Array = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]; // Select Debug >
List Variables in test mode
// to see a list of the array elements.
Usage 2: Surround the index of each element with brackets ([]) to access it directly; you can
add a new element to an array, or you can change or retrieve the value of an existing element.
The first index in an array is always 0, as shown in the following example:
var my_array:Array = new Array();
my_array[0] = 15;
my_array[1] = "Hello";
my_array[2] = true;
You can use brackets ([]) to add a fourth element, as shown in the following example:
my_array[3] = "George";
You can use brackets ([]) to access an element in a multidimensional array. The first set of
brackets identifies the element in the original array, and the second set identifies the element
in the nested array. The following lines of code send the number 6 to the Output panel.
var ticTacToe:Array = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]];
trace(ticTacToe[1][2]);// output: 6
Usage 3: You can use the array access ([]) operator instead of the eval() function to
dynamically set and retrieve values for movie clip names or any property of an object. The
following line of code sends the number 6 to the Output panel.
name["mc" + i] = "left_corner";
Operands
myArray : Object - myArray The name of an array.
a0, a1,...aN : Object - a0,a1,...aN Elements in an array; any native type or object
instance, including nested arrays.
i : Number - i An integer index greater than or equal to 0.
myObject : Object - myObject The name of an object.
propertyName : String - propertyName A string that names a property of the object.
Returns
Object -
Usage 1: A reference to an array.
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