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Learn to Code With JavaScript
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Learn to Code With JavaScript

by Darren Jones
March 2021
Beginner
404 pages
5h 47m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 5: Collections

So far, we’ve met primitive data types such as strings, numbers and Booleans. But what if we want to store a whole collection of values in a single variable? For example, we might have a list of prices that we want store in the same place. Composite data types can be used to collect primitive values in a structured way.

Programming languages use a variety of different data structures to store values, but one of the most common is an array.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following:

  • creating arrays
  • adding values to arrays
  • removing values from arrays
  • the spread operator
  • multi-dimensional arrays

Arrays

An array is an ordered list of values. For example, consider the following shopping list:

  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Cupcake ...
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