actionscript 3 - AS3/Flash: Array convertion (two questions) -

1) have array:

var n:array = ["james", "jane", "jamel"...]; 

and need transfor this:

var nt:array = [{label:"james"}, {label:"jane"}, {label:"jamel"}...]; 

2) possible sort , remove duplicated names in:

var n:array = [{label:"james"}, {label:"jane"}, {label:"jamel"}, {label:"jane"},...]; 

thanks in advance.

var initialarray: array = ["james", "jane", "jamel", "jane", "jamel"]; var resultingarray: array = []; //sorting array initialarray.sort(); //removing duplicates var i: int = 0; while (i < initialarray.length) {     while (i < initialarray.length + 1 && initialarray[i] == initialarray[i + 1]) {         initialarray.splice(i, 1);     }     i++; } //converting each(var elem: object in initialarray) {     var currentobject: object = new object();     currentobject.label = elem;     resultingarray.push(currentobject); } 

you can work resultingarray

you may want use original or while loop, possibly increase speed of piece of code.