# Arrays?

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/arrays/210
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [October 2, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/arrays/210 "2006-10-02T07:18:14Z")
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/arrays/210/1 "2006-10-02T07:18:14Z")

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I think I’ve seen it mentioned somewhere that FB has support for arrays, but I can’t find any information on it. I know how to create a list within a variable, but I need a 2-dimensional array for what I’m trying to do. Maybe there’s a better way to handle this that I haven’t thought of. Please share your thoughts.  
  
I have a list of languages, and a list of abbreviations for the same languages. Currently, I’m using a variable to store the LanguageListFull and a separate variable for the LanguageListAbbrv. These work great, and I use a list iterator at many points in my build to, for instance, run a solution with a different configuration for each language. However, I’ve run into a situation where I need to access both the language name and it’s abbreviation in the same action. Here, a list iterator won’t work for me because I can only get either the language or it’s abbreviation, but not both. Is there a good way to link the language name to its abbreviation and still be able to cycle through all the languages as a list?

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### Author: ![tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/arrays/210/2 "2006-10-03T03:12:58Z")

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Hi Keith,  
  
Interesting question 🙂  
  
One thought I’ve had is to use a Project Global Script that can convert from a language name to its abbreviation (i’ve got no idea how hard or easy this would be to write…), and then use a small piece of script code in the BeforeAction of any action that needs this to set a new variable with the abbreviation as derived from passing the language name into a translation function.  
  
.t8

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### Author: ![tinus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/tinus/32/33_2.png) [@tinus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tinus)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/arrays/210/3 "2006-10-04T10:01:01Z")

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Or use one list with a separator like "-"  
  
English - eng  
Deutsch - deu  
  
and add some VB script code to split this into the full name and the abbreviation.