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<br>Well, I don't know what character was hiding in my version, but I just substituted my vars in your pasted code one at a time and and it worked.<br><br>I can move the block above or below each other and the undefined moves with it.<br><br>help_defs = new Object();<br>help_defs.Atomic = 'Roosters are atomic';<br>myVar='Atomic';<br>debug(help_defs[myVar]);<br><br>help_defs = new Object();<br>help_defs.Atomic = 'Roosters are atomic';<br>myVar='Atomic';<br>debug(help_defs[myVar]);<br> <br><br>The upper one (my original) returns undefined.<br>The lower one (yours copied and pasted with my vars typed in) works fine. See any difference?<br> <br>Ghosts in the machine.<br><br>Thanks Julian. It teaches me a lesson about AS.<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br>Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:46:43 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">b = new Object();<br>b.blah = 'value';</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">v='blah';<br>debug(b[v]); //works for me</font></div></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Sun 27/12/2009 21:49<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br></font><br></div>
<div>help_defs = new Object();<br>helps_defs.Atomic = "Roosters are atomic";<br>debug(helps_defs.Atomic); // gives me "Roosters are atomic"<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">myVar = 'Atomic';</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial">debug(help_defs[myVar]); // gives me u</font>ndefined.<br></div></div><br><br><br>
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br>Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:23:56 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">myVar = 'Atomic';</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> Sun 27/12/2009 18:05<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br></font><br></div>
<div><br>help_defs = new Object();<br>helps_defs.Atomic = "Roosters are atomic";<br>debug(helps_defs.Atomic); // gives me "Roosters are atomic"<br><br>Can I sub a variable into the place of .Atomic in that last statement?<br><br>Sort of like in AW, to call a value from a property list using a variable for the property name I'd use:<br><br>Trace(my_prop_list[Symbol("a"^some_variable)]) <br>
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