Javascript two dimensional arrays
arrays, javascript, multidimensional-array
Solution
N-Dimensional arrays do not exist in javascript - you have to just make arrays containing arrays as elements.
You're getting an error because `a = [[]];` declares an array with one element, which happens to also be an array. Therefore `a[0]` is the internal array, but `a[1]` does not exist because you never declared it. The easiest way to properly declare a "two dimensional array" would be to use a loop:
var outerArray = [];
var numInternalArrays = 5;
for (var i = 0; i < numInternalArrays; i++) {
outerArray[i] = [];
}
Problem
I have declared a two-dimensional array, like so: ``` a = [[]] ``` However, when I try to give a second dimension value using a first dimension index other than 0, it doesn't work: ``` a[1][0] = "foo" //returns error ``` Is there a better way around this than manually defining every index you need as an array, i.e.: ``` a[1] = []; a[2] = []; a[3] = []; //et cetera ```