String to object in JS

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I have a string as   string    firstName name1  lastName last1      now I need one object obj such that   obj    firstName name1  lastName last1    How can I do this in JS

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if you re using JQuery   var obj   jQuery parseJSON    path    img filename jpg      console log obj path      will print  img filename jpg   REMEMBER  eval is evil   D

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I implemented a solution in a few lines of code which works quite reliably   Having an HTML element like this where I want to pass custom options    lt div class  my-element      data-options  background-color   dadada  custom-key  custom-value   gt   lt  div gt    a function parses the custom options and return an object to use that somewhere   function readCustomOptions  elem       var i  len  option  options  optionsObject            options    elem data  options        options    options        replace   s g     split           for  i   0  len   options length - 1  i  lt  len  i             option   options i  split               optionsObject option 0     option 1             return optionsObject     console log readCustomOptions     my-element

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Since JSON parse   method requires the Object keys to be enclosed within quotes for it to work correctly  we would first have to convert the string into a JSON formatted string before calling JSON parse   method    x000D   x000D  var obj      firstName  John   lastName  Doe      x000D   x000D  var jsonStr   obj replace    w      w     g  function matchedStr    x000D    return       matchedStr substring 0  matchedStr length - 1          x000D      x000D   x000D  obj   JSON parse jsonStr     converts to a regular object x000D   x000D  console log obj firstName      expected output  John x000D  console log obj lastName      expected output  Doe x000D   x000D   x000D    This would work even if the string has a complex object  like the following  and it would still convert correctly  Just make sure that the string itself is enclosed within single quotes    x000D   x000D  var strObj      name  John Doe   age 33  favorites   sports   hoops    baseball    movies   star wars    taxi driver         x000D   x000D  var jsonStr   strObj replace    w      w     g  function s    x000D    return       s substring 0  s length-1          x000D      x000D   x000D  var obj   JSON parse jsonStr   x000D  console log obj favorites movies 0       expected output  star wars x000D   x000D   x000D

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string    firstName name1  lastName last1     This will work   var fields   string split            fieldObject        if  typeof fields      object         fields each function field          var c   property split             fieldObject c 0     c 1              However it s not efficient  What happens when you have something like this   string    firstName name1  lastName last1  profileUrl http   localhost site profile 1     split   will split  http   So i suggest you use a special delimiter like pipe   string    firstName name1  lastName last1        var fields   string split                fieldObject            if  typeof fields      object             fields each function field              var c   property split                 fieldObject c 0     c 1

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Actually  the best solution is using JSON   Documentation  JSON parse text   reviver     Examples   1   var myobj   JSON parse     hello   world       alert myobj hello       world    2   var myobj   JSON parse JSON stringify       hello   world      alert myobj hello       world    3  Passing a function to JSON  var obj         hello   World       sayHello   function             console log  I say Hello            toString      var myobj   JSON parse JSON stringify obj    myobj sayHello   new Function  return    myobj sayHello         myobj sayHello

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I m using JSON5  and it s works pretty well   The good part is it contains no eval and no new Function  very safe to use

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In your case  var KeyVal   string split        var obj       var i  for  i in KeyVal        KeyVal i    KeyVal i  split           obj eval KeyVal i  0      eval KeyVal i  1

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I know this is an old post but didn t see the correct answer for the question   var jsonStrig              var items   string split             for  var i   0  i  lt  items length  i                var current   items i  split                 jsonStrig          current 0            current 1                        jsonStrig   jsonStrig substr 0  jsonStrig length - 1         jsonStrig         var obj   JSON parse jsonStrig   console log obj firstName  obj lastName     Now you can use obj firstName and obj lastName to get the values as you could do normally with an object

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Your string looks like a JSON string without the curly braces   This should work then   obj   eval        str

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var stringExample    firstName name1  lastName last1   firstName name2  lastName last2        var initial arr objects   stringExample split           var objects          initial arr objects map  e    gt              var string   e            var fields   string split      fieldObject               if  typeof fields      object                fields forEach function field                  var c   field split                     fieldObject c 0     c 1     use parseInt if integer wanted                                      console log fieldObject              objects push fieldObject                  objects  array will have all the objects

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This simple way     var string     firstName  name1   lastName  last1     eval  var obj   string   alert obj firstName     output   name1

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You need use JSON parse   for convert String into a Object   var obj   JSON parse     firstName   name1    lastName    last1

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If you have a string like foo  1  bar  2 you can convert it to a valid obj with   str    split         map x   gt  x split      map y   gt  y trim        reduce  a  x    gt        a x 0     x 1       return a              Thanks to niggler in  javascript for that   Update with explanations   const obj    foo  1  bar  2     split         split into   foo  1    bar  2      map keyVal   gt       go over each keyVal value in that array     return keyVal        split         split into   foo    1   and on the next loop   bar    2          map     gt    trim       loop over each value in each array and make sure it doesn t have trailing whitespace  the   is irrelavent because i m too lazy to think of a good var name for this         reduce  accumulator  currentValue    gt       reduce   takes a func and a beginning object  we re making a fresh object     accumulator currentValue 0     currentValue 1         accumulator starts at the beginning obj  in our case     and  accumulates  values to it        since reduce   works like map   in the sense it iterates over an array  and it can be chained upon things like map           first time through it would say  okay accumulator  accumulate currentValue 0   which is  foo     currentValue 1   which is  1          so first time reduce runs  it starts with empty object    and assigns  foo   1   to it        second time through  it  accumulates   bar   2   to it  so now we have  foo   1   bar   2       return accumulator             when there are no more things in the array to iterate over  it returns the accumulated stuff  console log obj    Confusing MDN docs    https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Array map https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Array Reduce   Demo  http   jsbin com hiduhijevu edit js console  Function   const str2obj   str   gt      return str      split           map keyVal   gt          return keyVal          split               map     gt    trim                reduce  accumulator  currentValue    gt          accumulator currentValue 0     currentValue 1        return accumulator               console log str2obj  foo  1  bar  2       see  works

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This is universal code   no matter how your input is long but in same schema if there is   separator     var string    firstName name1  lastName last1    var pass   string replace           var arr   pass split       var empty       arr forEach function el i     var b   i   1  c   b 2  e   c toString         if e indexOf         -1          empty el    arr i 1               console log empty

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If I m understanding correctly   var properties   string split        var obj       properties forEach function property        var tup   property split           obj tup 0     tup 1         I m assuming that the property name is to the left of the colon and the string value that it takes on is to the right   Note that Array forEach is JavaScript 1 6 -- you may want to use a toolkit for maximum compatibility

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Here is my approach to handle some edge cases like having whitespaces and other primitive types as values const str    quot  c 234   d sdfg  e  true  f null  g  undefined  h name  quot     const strToObj   str    trim      split  quot   quot      reduce  acc  item    gt        const  key  val    quot  quot     item trim   split  quot   quot        let newVal   val trim         if  newVal     quot null quot           newVal   null        else if  newVal     quot undefined quot           newVal   void 0        else if   Number isNaN Number newVal            newVal   Number newVal        else if  newVal     quot true quot     newVal     quot false quot           newVal   Boolean newVal             return      acc   key trim     newVal

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