An associative array is an array where the keys (index numbers) are string instead of integer, as they are in AutoIt. Linux / Unix awk and perl use associative arrays by default. The following functions can be used to manage a version of associative arrays in single AutoIt variables. A hash table is used to store the values because it is faster to insert than other options I can think of and pretty much as fast as them to retrieve the data. The memory requirements are a little higher than