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Captain Dando
Captain Dando

Reputation: 507

Getting json data into an array

I'm currently using jquery and javascript to get json data, which I would like to add to a list. The raw data received from it's source looks like this;

null({"groups": "Blacksheep,Family,Voice,Technical,Band"})

with a bit of code my input comes out as 

Blacksheep,Family,Voice,Technical,Band

My code takes these values and puts them though a for loop, looping once for each entry. it then takes that entry's name and puts it into a <li> field on my html document inside of a <ul> tag named people.

for (i=0 ; i < input.length ; i++){
    console.log(input);
    document.getElementById("people").innerHTML += "<li>" + input[i] + "</li>";
}

I tried to turn it into an array but adding a '[' on each side, but obviously it isn't so easy. at the moment it takes the json entry and lists each letter instead of word.

is there a way to separate each word from json? or a way to interpret it as an array?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 175

Answers (4)

manish
manish

Reputation: 497

This should do it. As all the answer mention split the string.

var arr = "Blacksheep,Family,Voice,Technical,Band";
var input = arr.split(",");

for (i=0 ; i < input.length ; i++){
    console.log(input);
    document.getElementById("people").innerHTML += "<li>" + input[i] + "</li>";
}

Upvotes: 2

Joseph
Joseph

Reputation: 119877

The data is a string. you can use .split(delimiter) to split the words.

//split by ",". now input is an array
input = input.split(',');

Upvotes: 3

alessio271288
alessio271288

Reputation: 358

you can split the var

"Blacksheep,Family,Voice,Technical,Band".split(',');

this returning a string of array..

Upvotes: 7

kannix
kannix

Reputation: 5167

Take the string and use .split to convert it to an Array

Upvotes: 2

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