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remysharp on 07/24/07


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clone

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Clones and object (associative array - not arrays). Goes deep.

Required sometimes when you need to keep the original object intact, i.e. when you pass an object in to a function and modify it in the function - the original would change.


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  1. function clone(o) {
  2.   if(typeof(o) != 'object') return o;
  3.   if(o == null) return o;
  4.  
  5.   var newO = new Object();
  6.  
  7.   for(var i in o) newO[i] = clone(o[i]);
  8.  
  9.   return newO;
  10. }

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Posted By: KitSunde on May 29, 2008

Line 2,3 could more effectively be written as: if(typeof(o)!="object"||o==null)return o;

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