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Old September 26th, 2003, 11:29 AM
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Default Removing an Element from an Associative Array

I have no problem creating associative arrays and adding indices to them.

e.g.

var myAssocArray = new Object();
myAssocArray["test1"] = new Object;
myAssocArray["test2"] = new Object;
myAssocArray["test3"] = new Object;
...
myAssocArray["testn"] = new Object;

I'm just wondering how you remove an index. I'm assuming that
...
myAssocArray["testn"] = null;
...

will set it to null, but the index still exists. I really want to remove the index. So that I have testn-1 as the last index for example.

Any ideas?

Nick

 
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Nevermind. I answered my own question. You need to use the delete method however this only works in JavaScript 1.2 >. For previous versions, all you can do is set the index to null.


 
Old September 26th, 2003, 12:15 PM
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You can also use the splice method.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...smthsplice.asp

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