Question

I need to write a JSON string that will be interpreted as an array, but only certain indexes will actually have any values.

I would like an array that looks like this:

array[1] = ["foo", "bar"]
array[5] = ["things", "stuff"]
array[37] = ["etc"];

So that to return “stuff” I could call array[5][1].

The catch is that not everything will have values, and I’m writing this string by hand, so I don’t really want to start from 0 and do all the empty values. Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

JSON representation of your data structure…

var data = {"1":{"0":"foo","1":"bar"},"5":{"0":"things","1":"stuff"},"37":{"0":"etc"}};

or just…

var data = {"1":["foo","bar"],"5":["things","stuff"],"37":["etc"]};