Referring to an item in a table
A table element has a collective name, but the individual items within it do not have unique data-names.
About this task
To refer to an item, you have a choice of three techniques:
- Use the data-name of the table element, along with its occurrence number (called a subscript) in parentheses. This technique is called subscripting.
- Use the data-name of the table element, along with a value (called an index) that is added to the address of the table to locate an item (as a displacement from the beginning of the table). This technique is called indexing, or subscripting using index-names.
- Use both subscripts and indexes together.