Question

Consider a string which is

{"Table" : [{"Bird" : "Peacock"},
{"Bird" : "Crow"}]}

to this ["Peacock", "Crow"] in jquery… Is this possible?

EDIT:
I am doing this but didnt work…

$(document).ready(function() {
                var obj = JSON.parse('{"Table" : [{"Bird" : "Peacock"},{"Bird" : "Crow"}]}');
                myarray = [];

                $.each(obj.table, function(i, v) {
                    myarray.push(v.Bird);
                });
                $("#tags").autocomplete(myarray, {
                    width: 138,
                    max: 4,
                    highlight: false,
                    multiple: true,
                    multipleSeparator: " ",
                    scroll: true,
                    scrollHeight: 300
                });
            });

Answer 1

You can use the parseJSON method (requires jQuery 1.4.1 or later) to parse the string, then the map method to get the Bird property from each item:

var str = '{"Table" : [{"Bird" : "Peacock"},{"Bird" : "Crow"}]}';
var arr = $.map($.parseJSON(str).Table, function(e){ return e.Bird; });

If it’s not a string but an object, you just need the map method:

var obj = {"Table" : [{"Bird" : "Peacock"},{"Bird" : "Crow"}]};
var arr = $.map(obj.Table, function(e){ return e.Bird; });