[thelist] Problem accessing for values with []

[Christian Heilmann]

thelist at cjmarsh.com wrote:

>>>I'm on to my second odd problem!  I've got a javascript file 
>>>      
>>>
>>that needs 
>>    
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>>>to make reference to the following form: 
>>>document.myform.form[fieldname].value
>>>
>>>But:
>>>alert('val: ' + document.main.form[journal].value);
>>>      
>>>
>
>Should that not be:
>
>alert('val: ' + document.main.form['journal'].value);
>
>Regards
>  
>
Have you tried it?  The  first wrong example is looking for a main 
object in the document object, and an array form in that one. then it 
tries to read the value of the elment of that form with  the index 
journal. Your example gets at least the associative array syntax right, 
but  has nothing to do with  the forms array either.