Using a dictionary over an array

I've been thinking about using a dictionary to deal with storing values in my game. I would then save this as a JSON in Webstorage and Load it as a JSON at the start of the game to allow saving in the game. However, I can only find information about people using arrays for this purpose. Not to say I can't figure out how to apply this to dictionaries (seems pretty straight forward) but I'm worried that there is a reason no one is using dictionaries.

Is it a smarter practice to use an array for storing values (level progress) that will be saved and loaded from WebStorage?

Thank you.

I would say Dictionaries are actually a smarter choice, since you can name entries. For example instead of:

Set index 0 to "John"

Set index 1 to "Biggles"

Set index 2 to "Smith"

You can have:

Set key "first_name" to "John"

Set key "middle_name" to "Biggles"

Set key "last_name" to "Smith"

...which is a lot clearer.

Arrays are better if you need 2D or 3D data storage, though (e.g. a grid of values).

That was my thinking as well, Ashley.

Does Construct 2 support nested data structures?

Can I have a dictionary where the values are an array or even more useful another dictionary?

spartyon and Ashley i think the last question by spartyon on this post i a good one.

"Can I have a dictionary where the values are an array or even more useful another dictionary?"

any answers yet?

Dasat spartyon you can't put an atual object inside of a dictionary/array, but you can put their UID in there and pick them using that when needed.

I put a simple array into dictionary.

"player1" = "1,0,1,0,Frank,1,2340"

And I use tokenat to get the relevant data.