I'm sorry if this has been asked before, it's something that's difficult to search for...

I want to use a javascript Array to hold objects, with the key as the ID

for example, let's say I had a bunch of people who had different IDs

 var people = new Array();

 var person = {property: value}; // this is person ID 4



 var people[4] = person;

I want to be able to then reference that user by saying, people[ID].propery

The problem is that the output of this array now would be;

 null,null,null,null,object

Because it's expecting the keys to be 0,1,2,3,4

Am I being stupid or something? :-) We can do it for strings right, so why not non-sequential numbers?

What I'm trying to avoid is having to loop over every single object in the array every time I want to access a particular person inside it, therefore I figured that using the ID number as the key would work

Thanks guys! :-)