By Andrew J. Wozniewicz
Milwaukee, August 3, 2008

Note: Associative arrays will be supported in WANT 2.0.4 as System.Dictionary objects. As such, they will differ in syntax and usage from what was described below. Please, refer to the more up-to-date article, to be published shortly.

The next alpha release of WANT will include rudimentary support for associative arrays. Below is a sample WANTScript application that makes use of these. Notice how you can use array subscripts of different types. The array declaration does not contain anything between the square brackets.

project Test061

   // Arrays

   var A[]

   A[0] := "ZERO"
   WriteLn(A[0]);
   A[1] := A[0];
   WriteLn(A[1]);

   A[1] := 1;
   WriteLn(A[1]);

   A[2] := True;
   WriteLn(A[2]);

   A[0.5] := "Half"
   WriteLn(A[0.5]);

   A[0.25] := "Quarter"
   WriteLn(A[0.5]);

   A["Hello"] := "Hello world!"
   WriteLn(A["Hello"]);

   A["Bye"] := "Goodbye world!"
   WriteLn(A["Bye"]);

   A[True] := 1
   A[False] := 0

   WriteLn(A[True]);
   WriteLn(A[False]);

   A["Bye"] := A[True]
   WriteLn(A["Bye"]);

end

WANT 2.0.2 (Build 2008.08.03.21.44)
D:\Projects\Delphi7\WANT2\Scripts\test061.want

ZERO
ZERO
1
-1
Half
Half
Hello world!
Goodbye world!
1
0
1

172 tokens, 41 lines, 1 file
0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints
0 seconds

-Andrew