javascript eval() IE

[theS70RM]

Hey,

Im at my wits end!

Im trying to get IE to store a string that defines a multi-demensional array as an actual array.

Heres what the array definition would look like:

foo = Array(	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'});
alert(foo[1]["key"]);

No problem!

but i have this stored as a string (without the foo = part). So im using eval() to evaluate the code. It's worked in most combinations i've tried in firefox no problems but none in IE. Heres some of what ive tried:

foo = "Array(	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'});";

foo = "\"Array(	{\"key\" : \"value\", \"key2\" : \"value2\"},{\"key\" : \"value\", \"key2\" : \"value2\"},	{\"key\" : \"value\", \"key2\" : \"value2\"},	{\"key\" : \"value\", \"key2\" : \"value2\"});\";";

foo = "\"Array(	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},	{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'});\"";


myarray = eval(foo);
alert(myarray[1]["key"]);

To further complicate things, some of the values in the array sometimes have ' characters in, however i just want to get it working without first then i can probably just add slashes to solve that problem.

Any Help is much apprieciated!

Andy

[gits]

hi ...

i just tested it in IE6 addressbar:

javascript:var a = eval("Array(   {'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},{'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'}, {'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'},    {'key' : 'value', 'key2' : 'value2'});"); alert(a[0].key);

that was your first showed option and it alerted 'value' as it would be expected? ... what IE version do you use? is any error shown?

kind regards

[theS70RM]

oh yea, should have thought about testing it like that,

turns out it was a problem with my variable name and another class that i wrote conflicting.

Thanks for your help!

[gits]

no problem ;) ... post back to the forum anytime you have more questions ...

kind regards