What's the best way (most efficient) to turn all the keys of an object to lower case?

Question

I\'ve come up with

function keysToLowerCase (obj) {
  var keys = Object.keys(obj);
  var n = keys.length;
  while (n--) {
    var key = keys[n]; // \"cache\"         


        

Answer 1

Using forEach seems to be a bit quicker in my tests- and the original reference is gone, so deleting the new one will put it in reach of the g.c.

function keysToLowerCase(obj){
    Object.keys(obj).forEach(function (key) {
        var k = key.toLowerCase();

        if (k !== key) {
            obj[k] = obj[key];
            delete obj[key];
        }
    });
    return (obj);
}

var O={ONE:1,two:2,tHree:3,FOUR:4,Five:5,SIX:{a:1,b:2,c:3,D:4,E:5}}; keysToLowerCase(O);

/* returned value: (Object) */

{
    five:5,
    four:4,
    one:1,
    six:{
        a:1,
        b:2,
        c:3,
        D:4,
        E:5
    },
    three:3,
    two:2
}