// alert("This is the short length units file")
// Author Peter Parnham
var unit = new Array(8);    //set up data object
var i =0                    //  general counter
var items = 6              // number of elements

i=0
while (i<items){
  unit[i]=new Object;
  ++i;
  }

			    // order is important for select lists, high numbers can be missed off inputs	

i=0;                        //use i to make it easy to reset numbers
  unit[i].name="metres";
  unit[i].factor=1000;
  unit[i].symbol="m";
  unit[i].ismetric=true;
++i;
  unit[i].name="centimetres";
  unit[i].factor=10;
  unit[i].symbol="cm";
  unit[i].ismetric=true;
++i;
   unit[i].name="millimetres";
   unit[i].factor=1;           // factor converts to mm
   unit[i].symbol="mm";
   unit[i].ismetric=true;
++i;
  unit[i].name="feet";
  unit[i].factor=12;
  unit[i].symbol=String.fromCharCode(39);
  unit[i].ismetric=false;

++i;
  unit[i].name="inches";
  unit[i].factor=1;    // imperial factors of an inch
  unit[i].symbol=String.fromCharCode(34);
  unit[i].ismetric=false;
++i;
  unit[i].name="&#188; inches";   //special case 1/4" - inches
  unit[i].factor=.25;
  unit[i].symbol=String.fromCharCode(188)+String.fromCharCode(34);
  unit[i].ismetric=false;

/*
// print out units and factors of mm
i=0;
while (i<items){
 with (unit[i]){
	document.write(name+ "</p>");

	document.write(factor+ "</p>");
    document.write(symbol+ "</p>")
 	document.write(ismetric+ "</p>")
    ++i;
	}
  }
*/