How do you get the *element name* from an AS3 array?

[samblue]

I have a class in my AMFPHP services which returns an associative array, but I am unable to get the actual names of the array elements inside of flash, even though the element names will show up in the service browser.

For example, if I construct a "pet" array in PHP like so...

$this_pet=array();
$this_pet["type"]="cat";
$this_pet["color"]="black";
$this_pet["hair"]="fluffy";
return($this_pet);

...So the data format basically is:

element[key]=value

When I call the service from AS3, I can only get the values, but not the names of each element.


for (var i in responds) {
trace(responds[i])
}


...so I can get the value, but how do I get the actual name of the *element*?

[Sephiroth]

did you try with:

for (var i in responds) {
trace(i)
}

[samblue]

Wow. Thank you! That is so simple and so obscure at the same time. It worked perfectly.

Is this the only way to get the name of a key when we have

element[key]=value?

or are there other array-access operators that can also do this?