Array Question

[ChaosKindred]

Hey, im making a SpaceShooter game and I am using 2 arrays to hold enemys and lasers so that I can use for...in loops to detect collision and such. I have a function that spawns the enemy or laser and puts them into the array[aray.length], but when i have them destroyed I realized I can't delete its spot in the array, which ends up slowing down my game after a while. Does anyone know how I can keep this array clean?

[superNoobice]

how bout overwriting it? sorry i cant help much

[signifer123]

Look up Array.pop(), Array.Shift(), but most importantly Array.splice()

myList = new Array (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
myList.splice (3, 2);

that gets rid of cells 4 and 5
remember cell 1 is 0
the first number is where it starts then the second number is how many it goes after the starting spot, this can also be used to replace values
see actionscript dictionary for more help

[ChaosKindred]

Thanks. But do you know why the delete function doesnt work? everytime i tried it everything froze up and crashed

[Marz]

delete only works for objects, not arrays... sorry bro...

You could use it to delete your entire Array object, but not your array elements.

[ChaosKindred]

lol, that would explain flash's hatred towards me when i tried to use it,
thanx