Can I get one array to manage both an object and its script simultaneously?

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At the moment I'm using two arrays; one for the cubes I'm managing and one for a script inside of them. Is it possible to get this down to one array only?

private var cubes : GameObject[];
private var cubeScripts : boxmover[]; // The script in question

private var i : int;
private var j : int;
function Awake () {
    cubes = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag ("cube"); 
    for (i = 0 ; i<cubes.length; i++)
        {
            cubeScripts _= cubes*.GetComponent(boxmover);*_
 _*}*_
_*}*_
_*function Update()*_
_*{*_
 _*for (i = 0 ; i<cubes.length; i++)*_
 _*{*_
 <em>_cubeScripts*.DoUpdate();*_</em>
 <em>_*}*_</em>
<em>_*}*_</em>
<em>_*```*_</em>
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I would make the "cubes" array local to the Awake function, and use cubeScripts.length in Update. You only need the cubes array for FindGameObjectsWithTag; no point keeping it around otherwise.

Alternately, if the "boxmover" scripts are only attached to those tagged objects anyway, you can use FindObjectsOfType, which would indeed use just one array.

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Class CubeWrapper
{
    var cubeGO : GameObject;
    var script : CubeScript;
    function CubeWrapper(in : GameObject)
    {
        cubeGO = in;
        script = in.GetComponent(CubeScript);
    }

}

create an array of those and access the public variables.