[thelist] string to multidimensional array

[Jason Handby]

Hi Daniel,

 
> I have a string, '[[1,"myName"],[2,"myOtherName"]]'.  I feed this to  
> js as a variable.  How do I turn this into a multidimensional 
> array.   
> So far, I can only create an array of length==1.
> Do I have to parse through it?  So far I've been avoiding that.


You can use the split() function to do what you want.

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp

If you want a multidimensional array, you'll have to do something like
this:

 - remove the outer []
 - call split(), specifying "," as the separator, to split into an array
of strings
 - index through the items in the array, taking each string, removing
its [], splitting it on "," and putting the result back into the array
in place of the string you just split


See what I mean?




Jason