Accessing keys of associative arrays-Javascript

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raghavan20
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Accessing keys of associative arrays-Javascript

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Assume I have an associative array

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var a_array = new Array();
	var b_array = new Array();

	
	/* adding elements to a_array for the A alphabet */
	a_array["a"] = "A";
	a_array["aa"] = "AA";
	a_array["aaa"] = "AA";

	/* adding elements to b_array for the A alphabet */
	a_array["b"] = "B";
	a_array["bb"] = "B";
	a_array["bbb"] = "BBB";
How do I access the keys of the array?
for ex: I want to read a, aa, aaa from a_array.
in PHP, I know it...its very easy: foreach($array_name as $key=>$value)
but what about in Javascript?
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for(var i in a_array)
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