Is it possible to iterate through an anonymous array of strings with a for loop?

Here's what I'm trying to do:

for ( i in ['country', 'city', 'state'] ) {
    doSomethingWithString(i);
}

What I want is the string, but what I'm getting is the index number of the array, which I can't use because the array isn't named.

Thank you.

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No you can't. i in your scenario is the key for each value so the only way to get the actual value would to do ['val1', 'val2', 'val3'][i] which would defeat the purpose :)

Is it possible to iterate through an anonymous array of strings with a for loop?

Here's what I'm trying to do:

for ( i in ['country', 'city', 'state'] ) {
    doSomethingWithString(i);
}

What I want is the string, but what I'm getting is the index number of the array, which I can't use because the array isn't named.

Thank you.

--
-- Ghodmode

in fact, there is no such thing as anonymous array, this supposedly "arrray" will be garbage collected as soon as the function has passed over.

Therefore you must initiate/create that array before using it at least locally.

for ( i in o = ['country', 'city', 'state'] ){ 
	doSomethingWithString(o[i]);
}

A more readable written form of the same with array value alert:

for ( value in option = ['country', 'city', 'state'] ){ 
	alert( option[ value ] )
}

will serially alert:
country
city
state --- I believe this was what you were looking for.
Cheers.

It should be noted, however, that you can hack around it by not using an array but using an object like so

for ( i in ['key1', 'key2'])
  alert(i); // 1, and 2 respectively

// BUT

for ( i in {key1:0, key2:0})
  alert(i); // key1, and key2 respectively

Thanks to both ShawnCplus and Troy III. Troy's solution is what I was looking for, but using the object notation as Shawn did is an idea with potential, too.

I guess I used the wrong term when I called it an "anonymous array", but I'm glad you got the idea. I was talking about iterating through a list of strings that could be thrown away as soon as I was done going through the list.

This is the first time I've read the term "garbage collection" in the context of JavaScript. I usually only read it in reference to Java, where the process is incredibly well documented. If I think of the browser as the JavaScript equivalent of Java's "virtual machine", is it basically the same process?

Thank you.

--
-- Ghodmode

Thanks to both ShawnCplus and Troy III. Troy's solution is what I was looking for, but using the object notation as Shawn did is an idea with potential, too.

I guess I used the wrong term when I called it an "anonymous array", but I'm glad you got the idea. I was talking about iterating through a list of strings that could be thrown away as soon as I was done going through the list.

This is the first time I've read the term "garbage collection" in the context of JavaScript. I usually only read it in reference to Java, where the process is incredibly well documented. If I think of the browser as the JavaScript equivalent of Java's "virtual machine", is it basically the same process?

Thank you.

--
-- Ghodmode

No,
it is even better!
:')

That's why you never heard of it before.
This one is automatic and doesn't need coders assistance. There are very rare situations when a coder might begin to notice its leaks or his own misuse of objects and vars etc.

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