JavaScript: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

Creating JavaScript Arrays

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JavaScript is capable of managing data in a more powerful manner than simply via variables. One example of this is JavaScript arrays, which you can think of as collections of variables grouped together. For example, a good metaphor for an array might be a filing cabinet with each drawer representing a different variable, as shown in Figure 5-1.

FIGURE 5-1 A filing cabinet representing a 10-element array

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