Accessing an array entry's item

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October 29th, 2009, 02:50 PM

roughie

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Accessing an array entry's item

I created an array, whose entries looks like this:

[41, "The bird flew into it's cage"]
[33, "He drew fire from Joe"]
[33, "Roger asked her her name"]
[2, "I am awfully happy"].

I want to pull the sentence item
out of some array entries.
E.g., in the second entry,
namely, arrayName[1],
what I thought was the
second item (the sentence),
I could manage by invoking
arrayName[1][1].

But to my dismay,
this doesn't do the trick.
arrayName[1][1] actually delivers up
the second CHARACTER of the
entry (the number "3").

I thought the comma between
the number and the sentence would
separate the items, although I
"pushed" each entry into the array
as one single entry.

How do I "grab" the whole sentence?
How do I push both items separately
to achieve "one entry"?

October 29th, 2009, 03:17 PM

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Sounds like you have an array of

javascript Code:

Original - javascript Code
var arrayName = [ '[41, "The bird flew into it\'s cage"]', '[33, "He drew fire from Joe"]', '[33, "Roger asked her her name"]', '[2, "I am awfully happy"]' ];

var arrayName = [
    '[41, "The bird flew into it\'s cage"]',
    '[33, "He drew fire from Joe"]',
    '[33, "Roger asked her her name"]',
    '[2, "I am awfully happy"]'
];

What's arrayName[1][0]?

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October 30th, 2009, 09:58 AM

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I should have clarified Requinix, I want to
select a few words out of the sentence.
Which means the sentence item of the entry
is itself an array.

I thought, wrongly, that simply
putting square brackets around the sentence
would render the item as an array.

Here's my code, with some calculations
replaced by comments to eliminate overload.

Code:

<script language="javascript">
	jsArray = new Array();
	<?php
		$file = fopen("./phpArray.txt","r");
		$item1 = "";
		$item2 = "";
		$itemEntry = "";
		while(! feof($file))
		{	
			$row = fgets($file);
			// Calculate $digits and $length
			$item1 = substr($row, $digits, $length);
			// Calculate $startat and $len
			$item2 = "'".substr($row, $startat, $len)."'";
			$itemEntry = "[".$item1.",'".$item2."']";
			print "jsArray.push(\"$itemEntry\" );";				
		} 
		fclose($file);
	?>
</script>

I suppose item2 needs to be an array
on its own. How do I change these 3 lines:
$item2 = "";

$itemEntry = "[".$item1.",'".$item2."']";
print "jsArray.push(\"$itemEntry\" );";

Accessing an array entry's item

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