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8.1 The Basics of Arrays
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This minor node presents the basics: working with elements in arrays one
at a time, and traversing all of the elements in an array.

* Menu:

* Array Intro::                 Introduction to Arrays
* Reference to Elements::       How to examine one element of an array.
* Assigning Elements::          How to change an element of an array.
* Array Example::               Basic Example of an Array
* Scanning an Array::           A variation of the 'for' statement. It
                                loops through the indices of an array's
                                existing elements.
* Controlling Scanning::        Controlling the order in which arrays are
                                scanned.