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Message: [QUOTE="RobG, post: 4884469"] Douglas Crockford wrote: [...] Yes Douglas - but the rest of the question was how to loop through the array. My guess is that the OP will attempt to call each element explicitly, but what about getting all of them without needing to know what they are called? So I had a go at looping through all the elements of all the objects, but I'm left with two questions (hopefully I've used do/while correctly!): 1. Is there a way to avoid using eval? 2. Is there an efficient way of putting the j decrement inside the while, but still get the zero-th element? I could have used: j = myArray.length; ... eval('myArray[j-1].' + anAttribute) ... while(--j) but (without testing) all those [j-1]'s seem inefficient. <script type="text/javascript"> myArray = [{ name: "John", age: "35", number: "12345", date: "01/01/1975"}, { name: "Sarah", age: "29", number: "56789", date: "12/12/19"}]; function sayArray() { var msg='', anAttribute, j; if (myArray) { j = myArray.length - 1; do { msg += '\nEntry: ' + j; for ( anAttribute in myArray[j]){ msg += '\n ' + anAttribute + ': ' + eval('myArray[j].' + anAttribute); } --j; } while(j >= 0); } alert(msg); } <button onclick="sayArray();">Say myArray</button> [/QUOTE]