Your first example is missing a quote, but after fixing that, both versions work for me.

 

Dan

I was trying to use a condensed array in AE (on a text layer's source text), but it kept throwing an error. Does anyone know why this was throwing an error?

var temp = new Array("test,"test2");

outputString = temp[0]

ERROR

var temp = ["test","test2"]

outputString=temp[0]

ERROR

var temp = new Array()

temp[0] = "test";

temp[1] = "test2";

outputString = test[0]