Question

Is it possible to make a dictionary out of this sequence with jquery/javascript?

key:value

<div id="hidden_loaded_deals">
  <div>1:5</div>
  <div>2:5</div>
</div>

I tried this:

$('#hidden_loaded_deals > div').text()

and the result is:

"1:52:5"

It looses the separation between the strings in order to push them later into a dictionary.
is there a function out of the box todo that?

Answer 1

Koolnic’s answer is very good, but I would suggest using object literal as a key-value store. Then you can use for in syntax for looping the keys.

var tmpdict = {};
$('#hidden_loaded_deals > div').each(
    function(){
        var splitted = $(this).text().split(':');
        tmpdict[splitted[0]] = splitted[1];
    }
);

for(var key in tmpdict)
{
    var value = tmpdict[key];
}