Parse JSON Question

[A Former User]

Howdy folks, I have a JSON object named after each Expansion and need to access it directly:

{
	  "Expansion" : 1.1,
}

Since it's a string, I can't do something like this:

const myExpansion = expHandler.getCurrentExpansion();
reg myExpansionName = myExpansion.getProperties().Name; // "Expansion"

Console.print("Latest Version: " + myJSONObject.myExpansionName); //doesn't work because "Expansion" is a string

Is there a variant of eval / parseInt / parseAsJSON for this? None of them seem to work for this particular case.

[d.healey]

Type parseJSON into the forum search ;)

[A Former User]

@d-healey I obviously need a t-shirt cause I still can't get it working.

Is there any other way to just index JSON? I see examples of that on stackoverflow and since I already have all of the relevant indexes in a loop it would fix everything

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey Can you give an example that isn't working?

[A Former User]

@d-healey I think I might have it backwards with the whole Parse thing.

I just need to take this:

reg myString = "ExpansionName"; // i would get this from getProperties()

const myObj = 
{
	  "ExpansionName" : 1.1,
}

and do this:

Console.print(myObj.myString);

Console.print(myObj.ExpansionName); // Works
Console.print(myObj."ExpansionName"); // Doesn't work (obviously)

So I need to remove the " " from the string somehow, the following all just return undefined so I think I'm looking in the wrong places:

parseInt(myString ) // duh
eval(myString)
myString.ParseAsJSON();

[d.healey]

@iamlamprey It's an object. You can access properties either using . or using []

[A Former User]

@d-healey Ahh there we go, I didn't try passing the string as an Index.

const myObj = 
{
    "ExpansionName" : 1.0,
}

const myString = "ExpansionName"

Console.print(myObj[ExpansionName]);

Cheers

[A Former User]

btw how does const vs const var work? Is it just saving 3 keystrokes? Or is there something going on in the background that is more/less efficient?

[Christoph Hart]

@iamlamprey just three keystrokes.