Define associative array of arrays

Question

I want to define an associative array like this

var theVar = [   { "100", [0, 1, 2] },   { "101", [3, 4, 5] } ] 

Essentially I want to be able to access an array of three numbers by specifying the custom index.

However, no matter what I try I cannot make it work.

I know I can define it as:

theVar["100"] = [0, 1, 2]; theVar["101"] = [1, 2, 3]; 

But I am setting this somewhere else and I'd prefer to be able to set it in a single statement.

Answer 1

theVar = {   "100": [0, 1, 2],   "101": [3, 4, 5] } 

might do the trick. You can then access using theVar["101"] (or theVar[101] for that matter).

(As var is also a keyword in JavaScript, using it as a variable name is very likely to cause problems.)