Question

I have a function defined in a javascript variable. How do I call that function within a javascript function?

function clear_viewer() {
     var stop_function = "jwplayer.stop();";
     // call stop_function here
}

Thanks.

Answer 1

function clear_viewer() {
     var stop_function = "jwplayer.stop();";
     eval(stop_function);
}

You shouldn’t do this though, eval should be avoided if at all possible. Instead you should do something more like this, which creates a function directly for later execution.

function clear_viewer() {
     var stop_function = function() {
       jwplayer.stop();
     };
     stop_function();
}