Try the below script, it works as it should adding 'hello' to each
element of the array in turn.
Until it reaches element [2][0].
then it throws an 'object expected' error..*sighs deeply* am i
missing something blatantly obvious here can someone please
enlighten me?
Code:<html>
<head>
</head>
<script>
var board_pos = new Array(new Array(), new Array());
for(a = 0; a <= 5; a++)
{
for(b = 0; b <= 6; b++)
{
alert (a + ' , ' + b);
board_pos[a][b] = 'hello';
}
}
</script>
<body>
</body>
</html>
It's been quite a while since I did arrays, so this might not be right, but the error goes if you do it like:
I think it may be something to do with the way you are declaring the array.Code:board_pos[[a][b]] = 'hello';
Hes right,
Code:arrayname[[x],[y]]='text';
thanks guys !
Up 'till now I've never needed to use multi-dimensional arrays in
javascript and accoring to a book on the subject, Javascript
doesn't support true multi dimensional arrays.
This being the case I picked up the above method from a website somewhere.
After looking more closely the extra []'s makes sense.
Strange how it accepts values until it reaches elements [2][0] and greater though !
Ta.
yeah, that is a bit odd. I wonder why it does it :confused:
I think it's something to do with the fact that you're not initialising the arrays, this seems to works fine:
I don't really know if you should do that or not, I'm not that great with JS :pCode:var board_pos = new Array(
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ],
[, , , , , ]);
for(a = 0; a <= 5; a++)
{
for(b = 0; b <= 6; b++)
{
alert (a + ' , ' + b);
board_pos[a][b] = 'hello';
}
}
*shudder*
When you think of multideminsional arrays, you are thinking of matrices. So when you declare myArray(4, 4), you are declaring a square matrix, that is four elements on each side, with 16 elements total (4 x 4).
In JavaScript (and many other languages), you create an array of arrays. So if you declared myArray(Array(4), Array(4)), you are declaring an array with lenght 2, each element being an array with length 4. So you have 8 elements total (4 + 4).
If you wanted a 4x4 square matrix, you need to declare it as myArray(Array(4), Array(4), Array(4), Array(4)).
It was returning an error because board_pos[2] didn't exist, much less was board_pos[2] an array (implying that board_pos[2][0] didn't exist either).
gotcha !
cheers CiberTHuG ;)
Just to clarify if i wanted a 10 by 10 matix
i'd declare a new array:-
my_array = new Array(new Array(10),...repeated 9 times
and to access row 5 column 5 i'd use
my_array[4][4]
cool...that explains the weird results.....!
Exactly.
If I were to rewrite you code, I'd do the following.
Couple of important changes. First, nothing exists outside the head and body blocks. So you must but the script block in one or the other.Code:<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var board_pos = new Array(6);
for(var a = 0; a < board_pos.length; a++){
board_pos[a] = new Array(7);
for(var b = 0; b < board_pos[a].length; b++){
alert (a + ' , ' + b);
board_pos[a][b] = 'hello';
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
I use .length instead of some arbitrary number in the for loops. And I declare a and b.
The most important change, declare the second deminsion in the for loop. It is so much easier if the array is 10x10.