point taken, thanks for the tip, valdhor.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "valdhor" <valdhorli...@...> wrote:
>
> While that may work, I have found that anytime you are looping over an array
> like this, modifying/deleting items in the array while iterating over it is
> problematic at best.
>
> I find the best way is to create a new array that holds the id's of the items
> you want to delete and iterating over this new array and deleting specific
> items in the original array is best.
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Matthew" <fumeng5@> wrote:
> >
> > I found that reversing the loop, i.e. decrementing thru it solves the
> > problem. Hope that helps someone.
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Matthew" <fumeng5@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi -
> > >
> > > I remove an item in an array using splice() and when there's one object
> > > left in the array, the looping stops. Why is that? My loop is nested
> > > within another loop but I thought it should iterate over everything first
> > > before it goes back to the outside loop. Here's my code:
> > >
> > > for( var i:int=0; i<dpLength; i++ ){
> > > var group:Object = model.groupingColl[i];
> > > var children:Array = group.children as Array;
> > >
> > > /* if there are 2 items in 'children', the
> > > first is
> > > removed fine but then it doesn't iterate
> > > over the one
> > > remaining. */
> > > for each( var acct:Object in children ){
> > > if( acct.selected == true ){
> > > children.splice( i,1 );
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> >
>
