Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / July 2007

Hello,

I have been going through the tutorials in Adobe's Flash 8 training from the
source, and I have run into a syntax question about arrays and was hoping
someone could explain something for me.

specifically why I can trace an element in the first example but not in the
second. (IE. why does the second format not work and what do i need to do to
make it work.

ex1.

var directory:Array = [{name:"John", phone:"919-555-5698"}, {name:"Kelly",
phone:"232-555-3333"}, {name:"Ross", phone:"434-555-5655"}];

In this example I can run a trace to any item in the array.

ex 2.

var directory = new Array();

directory[0].Name = "John"
directory[0].Phone = "919-555-5698"

directory[1].Name = "Kelly"
directory[1].Phone = "232-555-3333"

directory[2].Name = "Ross"
directory[2].Phone = "434-555-5655"

all traces come up as undefined.

I have used the second examples format before with very few problems, so any
insight to this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.