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<br>Yes, as I discovered. :/<br>I was trying to make it easy on myself by passing a parameter which doubled as a link which doubled as a title which keyed the definition, etc.<br><br>I've gotten around it by using underscores for spaces and stripping the underscores where needed for display.<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Subject: RE: [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:24:30 +0000<br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>
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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> Wed 30/12/2009 14:23<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Accessing associative arrays via variable?<br></font><br></div>
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<div>For the archives, something that is probably obvious to OOP aware folks, but tripped me up good:<br><br>myObject = new Object();<br><br>myObject.My Property = "rooster";<br><br>debug(myObject.My Property); // gives "rooster"<br><br>debug(myObject["My Property"]); // gives undefined<br><br>No spaces in object properties allowed when using non dot syntax.<br><br><br><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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