Question

I have a javascript object literal?
I access them in my webpage as
data.list[i].ger or data.list[i].eng

If I want to directly search an entry how can I directly access that entry?
or do I have to do a linear search or a binary search upon sort?

data = {
    list: [
        {
            "ger": "A-as",
            "eng": "A as"
        },
        {
            "ger": "A-aws",
            "eng": "a-was "
        },
        {
            "ger": "we",
            "eng": "cv"
        },
        {
            "ger": "q",
            "eng": "w-la-w"
        },....

for e.g. if i wanted to access
“ger”: “q”,”eng”: “w-la-w”
I would acces it as data.list[4].ger

is there any way of directly accessing knowing what is the index of that entry?

Answer 1

I think you may be looking for JSONSelect. It makes it easy to access data in complex JSON documents, but looks like CSS.

Check out the examples, it looks pretty much like what you want to do.

For instance, to get the eng version of ger:q, you would do .ger:val("q") ~ .eng

You can download it here and use it with JSONSelect.match or JSONSelect.forEach.