alternative to push and pop

[sneaks]

just found out that ie 5:mac doesnt support push and pop of an array. is there a work around?

jonathan

[sneaks]

for those interested i found an extended array script that works very nicely:

[dithered.com...]

[Bernard Marx]

..nor does IE 5 Win.

You need to roll your own and add them to the Array.prototype . Incomplete emulations are easy, but making sure you have all possibilities covered is trickier.

I'm going to let someone else take the credit (and the blame):

I have also posted the full code listing for other array method emulations)

// +----------------------------------------------------------------+
// ¦ Array functions that are missing in IE 5.0      ¦
// ¦ Author: Cezary Tomczak [www.gosu.pl]       ¦
// ¦ Free for any use as long as all copyright messages are intact. ¦
// +----------------------------------------------------------------+
// Removes the last element from an array 
// and returns that element.
if (!Array.prototype.pop) {
 Array.prototype.pop = function() {
  var last;
  if (this.length) {
   last = this[this.length - 1];
   this.length -= 1;
  }
  return last¦¦null;
 };
}
// Adds one or more elements to the end of an array and returns 
// the new length of the array.
if (!Array.prototype.push) {
 Array.prototype.push = function() {
  for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; ++i) {
   this[this.length] = arguments[i];
  }
  return this.length;
 };
}

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:46 pm (utc) on Oct. 5, 2005]