what CHARS will kill an Array built dynamically?

[BrightNail]

hey all,
what characters will muck up a javascript array..
I know....these do..

comma, apostrophe,newline,tab

etc...what else?..I need a list of potentialy "bad" characters..

thanks,
james

[beetle]

Uhhh, what?

In what context? Any character is valid for an array IF you insert it as a string.

[BrightNail]

I don't think that is true...

for instance...

tester = new Array ('joe's tavern','here,she said','okay');

that will break..because of the apost. in "joe's" and the comma in "here, she said".......

I have an array being populated on the fly from a database...so, I haev to strip certain characters or my javascript arrays will break..

so, I want them to do this on the app end..so I need all the characters that will break a js array.

[brothercake]

you just have to escape them

var place = 'Joe\'s apartment';

[beetle]

The comma should cause no problems at all. And, and as brothercake pointed out, if you insert a character into a string that is identical to it's delimiter, it needs to be escaped with a backslash

var myStr = 'abc"def'; // okay
var myStr = "abd'def"; // okay

var myStr = 'abc'def'; // not okay
var myStr = "abc"def"; // not okay

Those offending characters need escaping

var myStr = 'abc\\'def'; // okay
var myStr = "abd\"def"; // okay

And, as you can see, you are really experiencing a String problem, not an Array problem ;)