Question

I have a function that receives an array of Strings. These are the names of variables I’m supposed to concat together.

Something like:

function createArray(varNames){
  varNames.each( function(varName){
    someArray = someArray.concat(varName.items);
  });
}

createArray(["array1", "array2"]);

I don’t know how to take a string and select the variable named after it. Any way of doing this in Javascript?

Answer 1

Depends of the scope where the variable was defined. If it was defined in the global scope (inside a browser) you could access it via the window object.

For example:

var arr1 = [1,2,3,4,5];
window['arr1']; // 1,2,3,4,5