Thanks Muzak, I have never used the delete command! I always set references to null etc.

/David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Muzak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] removing a entry from an associative array?


delete??

function removeAssociativeEntry (startArray, entryName) {
   delete startArray[entryName];
}

regards,
Muzak

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Skoglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] removing a entry from an associative array?


The only solution I see is to create a new array by looping through the array like this:

function removeAssociativeEntry (startArray, entryName) {
   newarray=[];
   for (var i in StartArray) {
       if (entryName<>i) {
           newarray [i]=startArray[i];
       }
   }
   return (newarray);
}

This seems a bit silly, especially since I don't know how long these arrays are gonna be. Is thery any inbuilt function for getting the index of a associative entry?

/David


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