Vista - Named array keys

Hello

I'm fairly new to Vbscript and I'm struggling a little as I'm more
familiar with Javascript.
Can someone please give me a hand?

Does vbscript allow the use of named array keys?

For example I have:

Dim result(3)
result(age) = 60
result(firstname) = "Tony"
result(height) = 187
result(weight) = 76

msgbox("Age: " & result(age) & vbCr &_
"First Name: " & result(firstname) & vbCr &_
"Height: " & result(height) & vbCr &_
"Weight: " & result(weight))

The resulting msgbox shows:

Age: 76
Name: 76
Height: 76
Weight: 76

This seems to assign *every* element in the result array to 76, which
should only be assigned to the "weight" element.

Is this happening because vbscript only accepts integers as the key/
index for arrays?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Turgs

"Turgs" <timb.php@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:a10b262d-5b05-4833-830f-a0de88f4619d@xxxxxxYou are correct. Since you have not assigned values to Age, Name, Height and
Weight, they have assumed a value of 0. You are therefore accessing the
first element of your array in all your operations.

"Turgs" <timb.php@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:a10b262d-5b05-4833-830f-a0de88f4619d@xxxxxx"named array keys" sounds a lot like a term that might be used with
associative arrays, which in JScript/VBScript is implemented as a dictionary
object.

Is the following script more like what you want to do?
'Dim result(3)
Dim result
Set result = CreateObject("scripting.dictionary")

result("age") = 60
result("firstname") = "Tony"
result("height") = 187
result("weight") = 76

msgbox("Age: " & result("age") & vbCr &_
"First Name: " & result("firstname") & vbCr &_
"Height: " & result("height") & vbCr &_
"Weight: " & result("weight"))

-Paul Randall

On Sep 3, 10:45*pm, "Paul Randall" <Paulr...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Paul

Yes, that's exactly what I want to do - "associative arrays".

Thanks
Tim

"Turgs" <timb.php@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:af99aba1-67bd-4055-abfe-1576916c4446@xxxxxx
On Sep 3, 10:45 pm, "Paul Randall" <Paulr...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Paul

Yes, that's exactly what I want to do - "associative arrays".

Thanks
Tim

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For more on the Dictionary object, check this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr..._scr_ildk.mspx

Use the TOC at the left to navigate to topics on creating the object and
manipulating keys and items.

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Richard Mueller
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Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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Paul Randall wrote:Minor correction here. What you say is certainly true with vbscript, but
in jscript objects can be used as associative arrays out of the box,
without resorting to a dictionary object:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/associative.html
http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/07/10/ja...s-demystified/
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HTH,
Bob Barrows

"Bob Barrows" <reb01501@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ei0vrRKLKHA.4316@xxxxxxThanks for the correction. My JScript knowledge is pretty much limited to
what I find in the script56.chm file, like:
mk:@MSITStore:C:\SCRIPT56.CHM::/html/jsobjdictionary.htm

-Paul Randall