Question

I have a call to a YouTube XML sheet that works perfectly fine. However, I am having trouble setting a value from one of the arrays. I want the first value from “songID” to be set as “first”. I’ve tried doing this:

var first = songID[0]

but it only makes a new array with only the first character of each value… Any suggestions?

$(window).load(function(){
    var pURL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/F9183F81E7808428?v=2&alt=json&callback=?';
    $.getJSON(pURL, function(data) {
        $.each(data.feed.entry, function(i, item) {
        var songID = item.media$group.media$content[0].url.substring(25, [36]);
        var songTitle = item.title.$t;
        var descript = item.media$group.media$description.$t;
        var songAth = descript.slice(3);
        }
    }
})

Answer 1

You are already in an each() loop, so you shouldn’t try to access it as an array, but just as a value. Just try:

if(i == 0){
  var first = songID;
}