What's wrong with this javascript? Array not defined

Question

What's wrong with this code?

var divarray = document.getElementById("yui-main").getElementsByTagName("div");
var articleHTML = array();
var absHTML;
var keyHTML;
var bodyHTML = array();
var i = 0;
for ( var j in divarray) {
    if(divarray[i].className == "articleBody"){
  alert("found");
  articleHTML = divarray[i];
  break;
 }
 bodyHTML[i] = '';
 if(articleHTML[i].className == "issueMiniFeature"){continue;}
 if(articleHTML[i].className == "abstract"){absHTML = articleHTML[i]; continue;}
 if(articleHTML[i].className == "journalKeywords"){keyHTML = articleHTML[i]; continue;}
 bodyHTML[i] = articleHTML[i];
 i++;
}

This is the error I am getting:

ReferenceError: array is not defined

I am using Google Chrome if it helps any.

Solution 1

It's not php - you should use

var variable_name = new Array()

or even better

var variable_name = []

Solution 2

That's not how to declare variables as an empty array. You should be using:

var articleHTML = [];

See this previous question for reasoning of using this method instead of new Array()

Solution 3

var articleHTML = new Array();

Solution 4

Note! Javascript IS case sensitive you have to use upper-case A in word Array.

var myarr = new array(); //THIS IS WRONG! and will result in error not defined

So these are the correct ways:

var myarr = new Array(); //THIS IS CORRECT (note the "big" A) :)
var myarr = []; //and this is correct too

Solution 5

It's [] in ECMAScript; this isn't PHP. The interpreter is right - array is not defined, which is why you're getting that.

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Comments

[Alexander Mills]

having fun reading your own code that way - totally difficult to determine where variables are first declared. see python.

[Alexander Mills]

ruby is also that way for shame