populating 3d array from external xml

[redhurricane]

Hello! I have a short xml file. I want to populate it using some kind of loop inside an empty 3D array when the file loads, I want it to look like this:

  ["LOL", "Laughing Out Loud", "0"],
  ["OMG", "Oh My God", "0"],
  ["BTW", "By The Way", "0"]

Here's my XML file:

<questions>
    <question>
    <short>What's the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>

     <question>
    <short>What's the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>

     <question>
    <short>What's the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>
   

</questions>

How can I do that?

Thank you!

[Scott64]

You just need to nest your arrays. In your example above, your outer array will hold 3 arrays, each of the inner arrays will hold the values. One way you could manually duplicate what I mean using your above example is:

var arr:Array = new Array();
arr.push(["LOL", "Laughing Out Loud", "0"]);
arr.push(["OMG", "Oh My God", "0"]);
arr.push(["BTW", "By The Way", "0"]);
trace(arr[2][1]); //By The Way

[redhurricane]

You just need to nest your arrays. In your example above, your outer array will hold 3 arrays, each of the inner arrays will hold the values. One way you could manually duplicate what I mean using your above example is:
ActionScript Code:

var arr:Array = new Array();
arr.push(["LOL", "Laughing Out Loud", "0"]);
arr.push(["OMG", "Oh My God", "0"]);
arr.push(["BTW", "By The Way", "0"]);
trace(arr[2][1]); //By The Way

Scott thank you but I need to do this with some kind of loop everytime I load the file, because I don't know how long my file will get.
Does anyone know how to do that?

[Scott64]

You just use loops. Use one loop for your parent elements and another loop to put the child elements into the parent arrays, all of which are stored in one master array.

[redhurricane]

You just use loops. Use one loop for your parent elements and another loop to put the child elements into the parent arrays, all of which are stored in one master array.

I figured as much, but I'm not sure how to build this loop and I would appreciate the help with creating the loop.

[Scott64]

Something like this would work with the XML provided above:

var xml:XML = 
<questions>
    <question>
    <short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>

     <question>
    <short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>

     <question>
    <short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
    <meaning>the meaning</meaning>
    <sign>0</sign>
    </question>
   

</questions>;

var questions:Array = new Array();
for(var i:uint = 0; i < xml.question.length(); i++){
    questions.push([xml.question[i].short, xml.question[i].meaning, xml.question[i].sign]);
}
trace(questions); //What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0,What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0,What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0

[redhurricane]

Something like this would work with the XML provided above:
ActionScript Code:

var xml:XML =
<questions>
<question>
<short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
<meaning>the meaning</meaning>
<sign>0</sign>
</question>

<question>
<short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
<meaning>the meaning</meaning>
<sign>0</sign>
</question>

<question>
<short>What&apos;s the meaning of..</short>
<meaning>the meaning</meaning>
<sign>0</sign>
</question>


</questions>;

var questions:Array = new Array();
for(var i:uint = 0; i < xml.question.length(); i++){
questions.push([xml.question[i].short, xml.question[i].meaning, xml.question[i].sign]);
}
trace(questions); //What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0,What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0,What's the meaning of..,the meaning,0

Thank you!