Referring to an item in a table
A
table element has a collective name, but the individual items within it do not
have unique data-names.
To
refer to an item, you have a choice of three techniques:
- Use the data-name of the table element, along with its occurrence number
(called a subscript) in parentheses. This technique is called subscripting.
- Use the data-name of the table element, along with a value (called an index)
that is added to the address of the table to locate an item (as a
displacement from the beginning of the table). This technique is called indexing,
or subscripting using index-names.
- Use both subscripts and indexes together.
related tasks
Subscripting
Indexing
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