Name
Array.shift( ) Method — remove the first element of an array
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
array.shift( )
Returns
The value of the first element of array
,
which is also deleted.
Description
The shift( )
method deletes the
first element of an array and then moves all the
remaining elements of the array up one position. The affected
array’s length
is reduced by 1. Note that
shift( )
differs from the pop(
)
method, which deletes the last
element of an array.
Example
myList = new Array ("a", "b", "c"); myList.shift( ); // myList becomes ["b", "c"]
See Also
Array.pop( )
, Array.splice(
)
, Array.unshift( )
; “Removing
Elements from an Array” in Chapter 11
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