Saving a Game Map To a Single String, An Array of Arrays Problem

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**What I’m trying to do: **I’m attempting to make a flat text file made up of game map information. I have an array of objects that I’m extracting the properties from and converting to a multidimensional array (an array of arrays). then finally imploding or joining into a single string separated by 2 glue strings.

**In short the problem: **The problem is that the code works but in an unexpected way.

The Code:


var mapTextArr:Array = [[],[],[]];
for(var i=0; i<mapObjectsArr.length; i++){
  for(var j=0; j<9; j++){
    if(mapObjectsArr*.returnProperty(j) != null){
      mapTextArr*[j] = mapObjectsArr*.returnProperty(j);                  
    }
  }
}
trace(joinArrays(mapTextArr, "::", "]["));

**The problem with the above code: **The above code works but only for 3 objects or less. In order to add a forth I would need to change mapTextArray var to equal [[],[],[],[]] which I’m unsure how to do pragmatically and it seems there should be an entirely easier solution.

here’s the output for reference:
[object MapProperties],[object DirtObject]
1::1][2::400::300::40::20::0
[object MapProperties],[object DirtObject],[object DirtObject]
1::1][2::400::300::40::20::0][2::400::300::40::20::0
[object MapProperties],[object DirtObject],[object DirtObject],[object DirtObject]
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at MapEditor/butCheck()

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