Using for loop to count through variables?

[weirdwes]

I searched the forums and google and I kept ending up at irrelevant pages. Perhaps I wasn't searching for the correct term.

Imagine I have a set of variables (Item1 - Item10) and I want to do something with their values. (anything really). How can I set up a FOR LOOP that will count from 1-10, add that as "string" to the end of "item" and then do my thing. Yes this would be easier with arrays, but it has others uses, I just need to know how to do it. :D

The way I do it now (yikes)


Var item1 = "";
Var item2 = "";
Var item3 = "";


(etc)

How can I do it like this?


For (X=1; X <= 10; X++;) {
Var item+x = "";
}


This is probably really easy. :p
Thanks!

[Garadon]

For (X=1; X <= 10; X++ {
window['item'+x] = "";
}

[weirdwes]

Thank you, that does trick!

[glenngv]

More info on that trick here (http://www.litotes.demon.co.uk/js_info/sq_brackets.html).

[weirdwes]

Thanks for that link. It's nice to know why something works instead of just using it not knowing what it does. Much appreciated.