Access Hyphenated JSON Elements Using Javascript
April 21, 2009 8:12 PM Subscribe
How to parse JSON elements with hyphens with javascript?
I am trying to embed tumblr posts to an existing website. Their API includes a JSON response to be used for javascript. However, when trying to access elements with hyphens (i.e. tumblr_api_read.posts[0].photo-caption), Javascript parses the hyphen as a minus, and returns NaN as the result.
How do I access the hyphenated elements, or escape the "-"?
Thanks in advance!
I am trying to embed tumblr posts to an existing website. Their API includes a JSON response to be used for javascript. However, when trying to access elements with hyphens (i.e. tumblr_api_read.posts[0].photo-caption), Javascript parses the hyphen as a minus, and returns NaN as the result.
How do I access the hyphenated elements, or escape the "-"?
Thanks in advance!
In Javascript,
is the same thing as
You can use the latter form to access properties whose names are not themselves valid Javascript variable names.
posted by gsteff at 8:36 PM on April 21, 2009
myvar.foois the same thing as
myvar['foo']You can use the latter form to access properties whose names are not themselves valid Javascript variable names.
posted by gsteff at 8:36 PM on April 21, 2009
Response by poster: Thanks enn! That did it, I kept trying various versions of tumblr_api_read.posts[0]."photo-caption", tumblr_api_read.posts[0].["photo-caption"], etc. Didn't think to exclude the .
posted by theRussian at 9:35 PM on April 21, 2009
posted by theRussian at 9:35 PM on April 21, 2009
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tumblr_api_read.posts[0]["photo-caption"].posted by enn at 8:25 PM on April 21, 2009