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April 21, 2004

Nifty little Array Trick

Not the most amazing discovery in the world but I came across a nifty little array trick earlier today.

For the past few weeks I have been in debug mode so I've been digging through a bunch of arrays. Every now and then the most minuet and insignificant detail will bother me. In this particular case it was the commas in the array:

var a = new Array(1,2,3,4);
trace(a);

// Output
1,2,3,4

For small sets of data no biggie. However, I'm dealing with thousands of lines of data. Hence my solution:

trace(a.join(newline));

// Output
1
2
3
4

Woohoo! I know it's not that big of a deal and it's not going to save you anytime or speed anything up. But it sure is purty and didn't require a customer formater class.

Posted by erikbianchi at 07:27 PM | Comments (254)