# String array help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-array-help/262499>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 6, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-array-help/262499 "2008-06-06T13:13:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-array-help/262499/1 "2008-06-06T13:13:10Z")

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:z: I know

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insideInput = String(xmlNode.childNodes[0].attributes.insider)  
virusTarget = insideInput.indexOf(“kz”, [**17**]);  
endTarget = insideInput.indexOf(“.”, [virusTarget+2]);  
trace(“VTTT”+virusTarget)  
trace(“ET”+ endTarget)

//endTarget = local.indexOf(“.”, [“vitesting”]);  
clipTarget = virusTarget+3;  
zebra = insideInput.substring(clipTarget, endTarget);  
trace(zebra)

I’m trying extract info from a string, increment through it and add the data to an array

thing is I can’t get the **startIndex** thing to work

any ideas thanks

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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-array-help/262499/2 "2008-06-06T13:46:42Z")

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the start index is still not working… work around

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insideInput = String(xmlNode.childNodes[0].attributes.insider);  
\*\* gorrila = “kz3”;  
i =4  
chimp = String(“.kz”+i)  
//chimp =“kz4”;\*\*  
virusTarget = insideInput.indexOf( **gorrila** , [“k”]);  
endTarget = insideInput.indexOf( **chimp** , [“k”]);  
trace(“VTTT”+virusTarget);  
trace(“ET”+endTarget);  
//endTarget = local.indexOf(“.”, [“vitesting”]);  
clipTarget = virusTarget+3;  
zebra = insideInput.substring(clipTarget, endTarget);  
trace(zebra);

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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/string-array-help/262499/3 "2008-06-06T14:49:24Z")

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right I have it working however one last issue

I need to have seperate arrays for each section…

so I need to somehow make

> zebraArray[z] = zebra

into

> zebra\*Array[z] = zebra