{"id":15503,"date":"2015-06-20T05:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T03:39:48","slug":"javascript-array-list-of-functionality-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/javascript-array-list-of-functionality-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript Array List of Functionality Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Javascript\/Array\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Javascript Array List of Functionality Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/\/Javascript\/Array\/JavascriptArray.jpg\" title=\"Javascript Array List of Functionality Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javascript Array List of Functionality Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=_blank title='Array information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Array'>Arrays<\/a> are very useful data structures that every programming language we know, has some functionality for.  Perhaps you remember our <a target=_blank title='Dynamic array information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamic_array'>ArrayList<\/a> tutorials &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Java ArrayList Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/java-arraylist-primer-tutorial\/'>Java ArrayList Primer Tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='VB.Net Hashtable Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/vb.net-hashtable-primer-tutorial\/'>VB.Net Hashtable Primer Tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; where we showed a bit about the benefits of an Array that is dynamic, and can expand (in size) and shrink, and can be indexed &#8230; that&#8217;s the gist of an ArrayList &#8230; well, if you are looking for this in Javascript you just subtract the &#8220;List&#8221; bit (hence the quirky blog posting title) &#8230; there is a great &#8220;Array&#8221; object available in Javascript to do most of what you&#8217;d want from an ArrayList data structure.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great resource for information about the Javascript &#8220;Array&#8221; object called <a target=_blank title='ECMAScript\u00ae Language Specification' href='http:\/\/www.ecma-international.org\/ecma-262\/5.1\/'>ECMAScript\u00ae Language Specification<\/a> (we got to via <a target=_blank title='Useful link' href='http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/1748794\/is-there-an-arraylist-in-javascript'>this link<\/a>, which is also excellent as an &#8220;Array&#8221; object member functionality synopsis (and which we urge you to consult), thanks).<\/p>\n<p>So we have today a <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Javascript\/Array\/\" title='Click picture'>live run<\/a> and some HTML\/Javascript source code you could call <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Javascript\/Array\/Array.html_GETME\" title='Array.html'>Array.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d15503' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d15503\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?tag=arraylist\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d15503' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrays are very useful data structures that every programming language we know, has some functionality for. Perhaps you remember our ArrayList tutorials &#8230; Java ArrayList Primer Tutorial VB.Net Hashtable Primer Tutorial &#8230; where we showed a bit about the benefits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/javascript-array-list-of-functionality-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[103,104,576,652,997,1319],"class_list":["post-15503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-tutorials","tag-array","tag-arraylist","tag-html","tag-javascript","tag-programming","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15507,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}