How to JSON decode array elements in JavaScript?

Question

I have a JavaScript array that, among others, contains a URL. If I try to simply put the URL in the page (the array is in a project involving the Yahoo! Maps API) it shows t

Answer 1

If you get this text in an alert:

function(){return JSON.encode(this);}

when you try alert(myArray[i]), then there are a few possibilities:

• myArray[i] is a function (most likely)
• myArray[i] is the literal string "function(){return JSON.encode(this);}"
• myArray[i] has a .toString() method that returns that function or that string. This is the least likely of the three.

The simplest way to tell would be to check typeof(myArray[i]).