passing subarrays (by reference)?

hi,

let say i have the following array :

var ary = [
[ 'Directory', 'type', 'href', 'tip',
['file', 'type', 'href', 'filetip' ],
['file2', 'type2', 'href', 'filetip' ],
],
[ 'Dir2', 'href2', 'tipdir2' ]
]


I want to send to a function part of this array by reference.
Currently i tried to send whole array to function i.e.

myfunc(ary)

Then I want to walk the array like this :

function myfunc(a) {
for (el in a) { alert(el[0]) }
}

I expect to get in 'el' an array-reference not an index, so that I can
say el[0] instead ary[el][0].
I want this 'cause i will make a recursive function that will walk this
array, so it will be easy if i just pass a reference to subarrays not
indexes.

Do u have an idea how to do that ?

tia

rootcho (AT) gmail (DOT) com said the following on 1/28/2006 6:26 AM:

hi,

let say i have the following array :

var ary = [
[ 'Directory', 'type', 'href', 'tip',
['file', 'type', 'href', 'filetip' ],
['file2', 'type2', 'href', 'filetip' ],
],
[ 'Dir2', 'href2', 'tipdir2' ]
]


I want to send to a function part of this array by reference.
Currently i tried to send whole array to function i.e.

myfunc(ary)

Then I want to walk the array like this :

function myfunc(a) {
for (el in a) { alert(el[0]) }
}

alert(a[0])

I expect to get in 'el' an array-reference not an index, so that I can
say el[0] instead ary[el][0].

el won't be an "array-reference". It never will. el will be a reference
to a property of the array. Slight but subtle difference, especially if
el refers to an array.

for (el in a){
if (typeof(a[el]) == 'Array')
{
subArrayRef = a[el];
}
}

Something to work with but not fool-proof. After the loop exits then
subArrayRef will point to the last entry of the array that is a sub-array.

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