Noob Flash

With a typical Array in Flash, you can define one element and call that element with the arrayName[arrayIndex]. This works fine if you only have one element you want to be defined in the array. What if you want to define multiple elements in the array? That’s where multidimensional arrays come into play.

Here is an example of multidimensional array code in flash.

var array:Array = new Array();
array[0] = ["cat.jpg", "1", "Here is a picture of a cat"];
array[1] = ["dog.jpg", "2", "Here is a picture of a dog"];
array[2] = ["frog.jpg", "3", "Here is a picture of a frog"];

To access the data, use array[0][0] to access “cat.jpg”, array[1][1] to access “2″, and array[2][2] to access “Here is a picture of a frog”.

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