Question

I have

var myArrayVariable1 = new Array();
var myStringVariable1 = 'myArrayVariable1';
var myStringVariable2 = 'myArrayVariable2';

Is there any way to figure out if one of the strings match the variables name? In case above, myStringVariable1.Value = myArrayVariable1.VariablesName

My conundrum:
I have around 100 objects that are unique to each user.
I need to update each object each minute

Each object is named as the database id; javascript would have to locate the object, delete it and then re-create it using new values (these are pulled via json)

So I need to locate the object (using the string that I have gotten from the json), then I need somehow call that object to delete it…
kind of stuck here.

In abstract I am looking for something like this:

foreach(object obj in allObjects){
  if (obj.ActualName==="something"){
   obj.Delete();
 }
}

After some thinking, and no answer to my question, I am thinking about using some sort of dictionary (a hashmap equivalent) to track all the objects

Answer 1

if the variable is part of an object, you can traverse on it :

var obj {
    myVar: 'hello'
};
for (var varName in obj) {
    alert(varName + ' = ' + obj[varName]);
}