Object from string

[kstubs]

I hope I haven't asked this before!!!!!!  OK, so if have a name string like this:

var name = 'somename' + x    // assuming x = 1

and some value = '1234'

I need the object:

{ somename1: '1234' }

But I can't figure out how to get here.  Please help.

Karl..

[kstubs]

OK, I figured it out.  Here is my solution, and ultimately I need an Object, as you can see I'm extending args in the end, so is there a way to avoid creating the hash, then casting the hash to an object?

            var idx = itt + 1;

            var name = 'p_Value' + idx.toString();

            var h = $H();

            h.set(name, names[itt]);

            Object.extend(args, h.toObject());

[Joseph Spandrusyszyn]

   var idx = itt + 1;
   var name = 'p_Value' + idx.toString();

   var h = {};
   h[name] = names[itt];

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[kstubs]

Wow, you just have to love Javascript, so flexible sometimes!  What an amazing language, I tell ya.

Thanks for that shortcut ilandril!

[T.J. Crowder]

You can even use an expression within the square brackets:

var idx = itt + 1;

var h = {};
h['p_Value' + idx.toString()] = names[itt];

...but you probably want that `name` variable for something else
anyway.

This is all a consequence of the fact that object property names are
strings, and so these all set the same property of `a` to `bar`:

a.foo = bar;
a['foo'] = bar;
x = 'f'; a[x + 'o' + 'o'] = bar;

These are also identical:

a[0] = bar;
a['0'] = bar;

...and in fact, we all use the fact that a number within the brackets
is converted to a string property name all the time, whenever we use
an "array" -- because JavaScript arrays aren't really arrays at all:
http://blog.niftysnippets.org/2011/01/myth-of-arrays.html

FWIW,
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T.J. Crowder
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www / crowder software / com