Question

i have function:

function getFieldNames(arrayOfRecords) {
var theStuff;
for (var i = 0; i = arrayOfRecords.length - 1; i++){
    theStuff = arrayOfRecords[i];
    theList = theStuff.split('" ');
    for (var j = 0; j = theList.length - 1; j++) {
        var v = theList[j].split('="');
        fName1[i][j] = v[0];
        }
    }
return fName1;
}

the argument arrayOfRecords is an array, and i dont know how to setup to the ‘theStuff’ variable an array element? When I do like it is above, i get something stupid.

can anyone help me? 🙂

Answer 1

There may be other problems but the one that leaps out at me is your for loop header:

for (var i = 0; i = arrayOfRecords.length - 1; i++)

The second part should be a condition, which when evaluated to false will stop the loop from running. What you probably wanted was:

for (var i = 0; i < arrayOfRecords.length; i++)

So when i is not less than arrayOfRecords.length, the loop will stop. Alternatively (to keep the - 1, but I tend to use the above version):

for (var i = 0; i <= arrayOfRecords.length - 1; i++)

The same goes for the nested loop.