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You can use arrays of numeric and string variables:
   for i from 1 to 5
      square [i] = i * i
      text$ [i] = mid$ ("hello", i)
   endfor
After this, the variables square[1], square[2], square[3], square[4], square[5], text$[1], text$[2], text$[3], text$[4], and text$[5] contain the values 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, "h", "e", "l", "l", and "o", respectively:
   writeInfoLine: "Some squares:"
   for i from 1 to 5
      appendInfoLine: “The square of ”, i, “ is ”, square [i]
   endfor
In the examples above, the index into the array was always a number. A hash or dictionary is an array variable where the index is a string:
   age [“John”] = 36
   age [“Babs”] = 39
   writeInfoLine: “John is ”, age [“John”], “ years old.”
You can use any number of array and dictionary variables in a script, but for many applications, namely whenever it were useful to look at a numeric array as a single object, it may be better to use vectors and matrices (see Scripting 5.7. Vectors and matrices) or to use Matrix or Sound objects.
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