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Alex Fowler
Alex Fowler

Reputation: 1

Getting objects from an Array

I may be doing this very badly but I'm new to this! if I have an array that contains objects like this

var company = [H7 = {companyName:"company1"},F4 = {companyName:"company2"}]

If I get a reference as a string say "F4" is there any way I can go

myCompName = company "F4" companyName and get the result "company2"

I was trying to use inArray like this

myStand = $.inArray("F4", companyObjects)
myCompName = companyObjects[myStand].companyName

but this doesn't work and yet

myStand = $.inArray(F4, companyObjects)
myCompName = companyObjects[myStand].companyName

does work. Do I have my array set up wrong or is there a way to do this? Thank you Alex

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (2)

jcubic
jcubic

Reputation: 66660

Arrays are indexed by numbers what you actually do with this line 

var company = [H7 = {companyName:"company1"},F4 = {companyName:"company2"}]

is this:

H7 = {companyName:"company1"}
F4 = {companyName:"company2"}
var company = [H7,F4]

if you want to access H7 and F4 you need to create another object:

var company = {H7: {companyName:"company1"},F4: {companyName:"company2"}};

and then you can do this:

$.each(company, function(i, comp) {
   var myCompName = 'company "' + i + '" companyName and get the result "'+
        comp['companyName'] + '"';
});

or 

company['H7']['companyName']

or

company.H7.companyName

Upvotes: 2

Kumsal Obuz
Kumsal Obuz

Reputation: 825

How about trying this way, http://jsfiddle.net/CBxMt/?

Basically company variable is an object that holds your company data. You can still access elements with [] notation just like arrays.

Upvotes: 0

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