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Length of Javascript Object (ie. Associative Array)

I have an object similar to this one:

var jsonArray = {
  '-1': {
    '-1': 'b',
    '2': 'a',
    '10': 'c'
  },
  '2': {
    '-1': 'a',
    '2': 'b',
    '10': 'a'
  },
  '5': {
    '-1': 'a',
    '2': 'a',
    '10': 'b'
  }
};

I’m trying to get it’s length, the problem is that jsonArray.length returns 5 instead of 3 (which is the total items it has). The array is relatively long (has 1000×2000 items) and this must be done a lot of times every second. How can I get the number of items more efficiently?

Answer 1

In addition to kieran’s answer, apparently, modern browsers have an Object.keys function. In this case, you could do this:

Object.keys(jsonArray).length;

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