Associative Arrays

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In computer science, an associative array, map, symbol table, or dictionary is an abstract data type composed of a collection of (key, value) pairs, such that each possible key appears at most once in the collection. An associative array differs from a “normal” array in one major way: rather than being indexed numerically (i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3, …), it is indexed by a key, or a language-like word. A Scripting.Dictionary is a standard object provided by the Microsoft ScripTing Runtime (scrrun.dll) dependency and is commonly used in VBScript, a reference to which needs to be added in order to create an object in your AutoIt project.