[Javascript] Subscript Notation

Troy III Ajnej trojani2000 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 22 12:16:31 CST 2011


 
> So my question. Is it possible to use subscript notation for the first part of an object something like...
> 
> ['a'].name -Of course it is... >or ['a']name
>  -no, that's a syntax error. [the dot is required for property separation there]
> Or would I have to resort to eval() to do something like that.  -not necessarily.  > this seems to work...
> 
> eval('a').name
-it sure does, it has to.> 
> But eval is bad...
-how do you know that?!
 
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                Troy III
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 > 
> So my question. Is it possible to use subscript notation for the first part of an object something like...
> 
> ['a'].name or ['a']name
> 
> Or would I have to resort to eval() to do something like that. This question is realted to my earlier one but I would be interested in an answer apart from my earlier post.
> 
> this seems to work...
> 
> eval('a').name
> 
> But eval is bad and I want to avoid it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry
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