[thelist] Q on assoc arrays

[jsWalter]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Willison [mailto:cs1spw at bath.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 8:41 PM
> To: jsWalter at torres.ws; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Q on assoc arrays

<snip>

> The solution to your problem is to use "object literal" syntax, which 
> looks like this:
> 
> var myArray = {
>    ac: 'Ascension Island',
>    ad: 'Andorra',
>    ae: 'United Arab Emirates',
>    af: 'Afghanistan'
> };
> 
> That will create an object called "myArray" prepopulated with all of 
> your data.

That's it! You took it one level back *up* from the example on
     http://www.crockford.com/javascript/survey.html

That's what I'm looking for!


> Here's an interesting side-note: if you do the above, you'll be able to 
> access data from the object using either of the following forms:
> 
> var country = myArray['ac'];
> 
> or
> 
> var country = myArray.ac;

Yes, this is *exactly* the  "side effect" I'm looking for!

Thank you very much!

Walter