[tyard]

Hi. I've been having some trouble transferring multidimensional arrays from a custom interface for a smart clip into the code for the smart clip itself. Tracing the arrays in the interface returns values as I expect, and everything works properly, but then when I trace the same values in the smart clip (after they've been created in the interface) it returns a one dimensional array with long strings in each position.

For instance, if my array in the interface was :

xch.myArray[0][0] = 2,
xch.myArray[0][1] = 5;
xch.myArray[0][2] = 3;
xch.myArray[1][0] = 5;
xch.myArray[1][1] = 7;
xch.myArray[1][2] = 8;

The array comes into my smart clip as:

myArray[0] = "2, 5, 3";
myArray[1] = "5, 7, 8";

Anyway to quickly return this into its multidimensional form? Is there something I'm doing incorrectly? Any help would be appreciated.


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[Gargoyle]

a multidim array is an array containing arrays.
here is a simple tut i made once just to check out how it works u need to run it in the environment for it only contains traces and has no real output.
http://www.8th-continent.net/multidimarray.zip

[tyard]

Thanks for the help, Gargoyle. I'm actually fine with the concept of multidimensionsal arrays and use them often within my Actionscripting (although I could have used your help a few months ago when I was struggling through!). My problem was that my arrays within arrays would not export as such from my custom UI back into my smart clip. I would get plain ol' arrays containing strings. I never did figure out how to fix it, I ended up creating sixteen single arrays to house the second dimension and writing a function to take the long strings and put them back into array form. I appreciate the help, though.

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