# Loading data from sor into an array?

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**Created:** [June 17, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-data-from-sor-into-an-array/54778 "2004-06-17T13:54:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-data-from-sor-into-an-array/54778/1 "2004-06-17T13:54:46Z")

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I have a multi-dimensional array and I need to save its data into my shared object file and then load it back into the array again. Given that the array has loads of elements I don’t want to do it variable by variable. I saved it out by sending the information out using a for loop and putting in & to spearate the data.  
Next I load it up into a variable and convert it to a string. Now I want to read the string and load it up into the array again, incrementing the array every time it hits &. The code is below for this. It is supposed to load up the contents of element [x] [3] :

function loadGame() {  
mysavegame = SharedObject.getLocal(“flashcookie”);  
if (mysavegame.data.datastring == undefined) {  
// No object exists  
trace(“No Saved Game”);  
} else {  
trace(“Loaded Game”);  
bigstring = mysavegame.data.datastring;  
bigstring.toString();  
trace(bigstring); //traces out my data separated by &  
k = 0;  
for (i=0; i\<bigstring.length; i++) {  
if (bigstring.charAt(i) != “&”) {  
datum += bigstring.charAt(i);  
myArray[k][3] = datum;  
i++;  
} else {  
i++;  
k++;  
trace("myArray [k] [3] is "+(myArray[k][3]));  
}  
}  
}  
}  
trace(myArray[1][3]);// traces as undefined!!

There’s probably a much more sensible way to do this but I haven’t been doing actionscript long. The trace from this is weird. The first element always seems to get missed and so do the last four. Furthermore when I try to trace the data outside of the load function it traces as undefined. Why?

This is the Trace:

Loaded Game  
392000&467200&199800&321600&297600&198400&195000&201600&139200&162000&171600&102600&106000&  
myArray [k] [3] is 467200  
myArray [k] [3] is 199800  
myArray [k] [3] is 321600  
myArray [k] [3] is 297600  
myArray [k] [3] is 198400  
myArray [k] [3] is 195000  
myArray [k] [3] is 201600  
undefined

Any ideas out there?