Arrays and date

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Hi there,

I am pretty new with Actionscript (on the border of stupidity ;))I wonder if you guys can help.

I am trying to display items on a array depending on certain date of the month ( july 1st: text1, july 2nd: text 2, etc, etc.)

Now, this is my actual code:

var currentDate:Date = new Date();
var indexPosition = currentDate.getDate();
var textForToday = julyArr[indexPosition];

var julyArr:Array = new Array();

julyArr[0] = “Text for the 1st of July”;
julyArr[1] = “Text for the 1st of July”;
julyArr[2] = “Text for the 2nd of July”;
julyArr[3] = “Text for the 3rd of July”;

date_txt.text=textForToday;

But when I test my movie it returns undefined

Any clues???

Thank guys.

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You’re calling the indexPosition for julyArr before you’ve created the array. That’s why it’s undefined.

It will also return an undefined value for any date that’s greater than 3 unless you add more elements to the array.

Finally, you might want to change it slightly so that indexPosition is currentDate.getDate()-1; to avoid having to duplicate the first two elements of your array. Try this:

// create array
var julyArr:Array = new Array();
julyArr[0] = "Text for the 1st of July";
julyArr[1] = "Text for the 2nd of July";
julyArr[2] = "Text for the 3rd of July";
julyArr[3] = "Text for the 4th of July";
// continue to julyArr[30] = "Text for the 31st of July";
julyArr[30] = "Text for the 31st of July";
// retrieve current date
var currentDate:Date = new Date();
// set index position == date - 1
var indexPosition = currentDate.getDate()-1;
// assign date element of array to date_txt
var textForToday = julyArr[indexPosition];
date_txt.text=textForToday;
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glosrfc,

It worked beautifuly, thank you sooooo much for your help.