Beginner JavaScript help

[Rage187]

var books = [ "Moby Dick", "Jane Eyre", "The Bible" ]
var books[0] = {title: "Moby Dick", author: "Melville"}
var books[1] = {title: "Jane Eyre", author: "Bronte"}
var books[2] = {title: "The Bible", author: "Steve"}

printp(books[0].title, " is by ", books[0].author)
printp(books[1].title, " is by ", books[1].author)
printp(books[2].title, " is by ", books[2].author)

books[0]["rating"] = 10

print(books[0])

Get an error that I am missing syntax before line 2. I have tried commas, colons, semicolons, brackets, paranthesis. to no avail.

 

[clamum]

That is incorrect syntax for an array.

You would have to do something like this:
var books = new Array();
books[0] = "title: 'Moby Dick', author: 'Melville'";
books[1] = "title: 'Jane Eyre', author: 'Bronte'";

and so on. You can just store a single item in each array element, so in your example you cannot have a "title" element and an "author" element in each array position.

You could do something like this, however:

var books = new Array();
books[0] = "Moby Dick";
books[1] = "Jane Eyre";

var booksauthors = new Array();
booksauthors[0] = "Melville";
booksauthors[1] = "Bronte";

document.write(books[0] + " is by " + booksauthors[0]);
document.write(books[1] + " is by " + booksauthors[1]);

I see you have a "rating" property as well. JavaScript doesn't support "real" multi-dimensional arrays, but you can simulate them: Check out this link.

 

[Rage187]

thanks for the help. I've been screwing around with Appjet and ran into this brick wall.