Question

For some reason I can push JSON objects to my array “list”, but when I call its .length, it seems that I’m getting the number of characters rather than number of items.

UPDATE: See answers for solution. My script wasn’t returning characters, it was looping through exponentially.

$.getJSON('[omitted].php?callback=?',function(d,item){
    var list = []
    alert('Length: '+d.length) // d consists of 271 JSON objects, d.length = 271
    for (i=0;i<d.length;i++){
        $.each(d,function(){ // for each JSON object we add...
            list.push({'name':this.name,'href':this.href,'img':this.img})
        })
        if (i==d.length){
        alert('Completed - Length: '+list.length) // list.length = 44711. Why?
        }
    }
})

Note that when I use alert(list) I see:

[object,Object][object,Object][object,Object] ...

Rather than an array:

[[object,Object][object,Object][object,Object] ... ]

Answer 1

I believe this…

$.each(d,function(){

should be this…

$.each(d[i],function(){

Otherwise you’re looping over the same d structure once for every item in d.