Topic: ASP

Comparing Dictionaries and Arrays:

• Keys are used to identify the items in a Dictionary object
• You do not have to call ReDim to change the size of the Dictionary object
• When deleting an item from a Dictionary, the remaining items will automatically shift up
• Dictionaries cannot be multidimensional, Arrays can
• Dictionaries have more built-in functions than Arrays
• Dictionaries work better than arrays on accessing random elements frequently
• Dictionaries work better than arrays on locating items by their content
  

Example
<%
Dim d Set d=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
d.Add "s","Secret"
d.Add "g","Gold"
d.Add "b","Ball"
d.Add "p","Pass"
Response.Write("The value of key gr is: " & d.Item("gr"))
%>

Output: