Help! How to create array with custom dictionary

[Ouitoo]

First, just a comment. I thought I was familiar with arrays from working with them in other languages. But, I am totally lost about them in Macrodroid. This while dictionary thing is a beast if a different color.

Now, my ask. Can some kind soul please TTMLIA 5 years old and tell me how to create an array with 3 positions having index keys of "Personal" "Promotions", and "Social"? I want to increment a counter variable in each array element, and to do so I'd expect to do a SET VARIABLE [ArrayName][Personal] to value+1.

So I'd look at it in my local Variables screen and see the ArrayName variable with 3 entries, and when I click it I'd see the list of those three indexes and each would have a number beside it.

Is this possible?

 

[Endercraft]

What you're describing is a dictionary,with key-value pairs. An array is a collection of values without keys that you can access with an index (0, 1, 2).

 

[Dm114]

First, just a comment. I thought I was familiar with arrays from working with them in other languages. But, I am totally lost about them in Macrodroid. This while dictionary thing is a beast if a different color.

Now, my ask. Can some kind soul please TTMLIA 5 years old and tell me how to create an array with 3 positions having index keys of "Personal" "Promotions", and "Social"? I want to increment a counter variable in each array element, and to do so I'd expect to do a SET VARIABLE [ArrayName][Personal] to value+1.

So I'd look at it in my local Variables screen and see the ArrayName variable with 3 entries, and when I click it I'd see the list of those three indexes and each would have a number beside it.

Is this possible?

To illustrate @Endercraft's explanation here's a visual scheme:

MacroDroid ARRAY

Index #	Value
0	any value (numerical, string, etc.)
...	...
n	any value (numerical, string, etc.)

MacroDroid DICTIONARY

Key	Value
string key A	any value (numerical, string, etc.)
...	...
string key Z	any value (numerical, string, etc.)