JavaScript. Extract values from associative array

Question

How can I get the values from this associative array in JavaScript?

I just need the email addresses and not the labels.

(
  {
    office = ("[email protected]");
    home = ("[email protected]");
    work = ("[email protected]");
  },
  {
    home = ("[email protected]");
  }
)

UPDATE: Prefered output in JSON would be:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "email": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
            "email": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
            "email": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
            "email": "[email protected]"
        }
    ]
}

Thankful for all input!

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:29:40Z

4

What you probably meant to do is:

var x = [{
 office: ("[email protected]"),
 home: ("[email protected]"),
 work: ("[email protected]")
},
{
 home: ("[email protected]")
}]

and:

for(var j = 0; j < x.length; j++)
{
    for(var anItem in x[j])
    {
        console.log(x[j][anItem])
    }
}

// EDIT: however, it's not the best practice to use for … in.

Maybe you could change your data structure to:

var x = [[{
        value: "[email protected]",
        type: "office"
    },
    {
        value: "[email protected]",
        type: "home"
    },
    {
        value: "[email protected]",
        type: "work"
    }],
    [{
        value: "[email protected]",
        type: "home"
    }]];

and iterate over using:

for( var i = 0, xlength = x.length; i < xlength; i++ )
{
    for( var j=0, ylength = x[i].length; j < ylength; j++ )
    {
        console.log(x[i][j].value);
    }
}

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:29

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answered Apr 19, 2011 at 18:49

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Jonathan Clark Over a year ago

I cannot change the data structure. I am developing an iPhone application in Appcelerator and this is what I get when I request information from the build in addressbook. They best would be if I could get the final output (addresses only) in JSON format. Is this possible?

Jonathan Clark Over a year ago

The current out put is now: [["[email protected]"],["[email protected]"],["[email protected]"],["[email protected]"]] in JSON. I would be cool if this could be: {"data": [{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"}]}. Is this possible?

Sapphire_Brick · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-10 14:16:58Z

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Here's a one-liner:

console.log(Object.keys(assoc).map(k => assoc[k]));

where assoc is your associative array.

Edit

I have a better answer here.

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answered Dec 26, 2019 at 22:42

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Sapphire_Brick · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-10 14:14:31Z

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It seems that you're looking for Object.values.

answered Jun 10, 2020 at 14:14

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Ray Coder Over a year ago

Please give the specific answer that refer to the question

Tejs · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-19 18:57:22Z

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You can 'foreach' over the object to get it's properties:

for(var j = 0; j < mySet.length; j++)
{
    for(var propName in mySet[j])
    {
        var emailAddress = mySet[j][propName];
        // Do Stuff
    }
}

edited Apr 19, 2011 at 18:57

answered Apr 19, 2011 at 18:45

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Jonathan Clark Over a year ago

I got an error with the above code (myObj) changed it to mySet and made an alert of emailAddress but each alert was empty. What is wrong?

Jonathan Clark Over a year ago

This time it worked perfectly! Thanks! Is it possible to rename all labels to the same name for example the word email instead of work?

Tejs Over a year ago

You can translate those values into another object of your choosing.

Jonathan Clark Over a year ago

he current out put is now: [["[email protected]"],["[email protected]"],["[email protected]"],["[email protected]e"]] in JSON. I would be cool if this could be: {"data": [{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"},{"email": "[email protected]"}]}. Is this possible?

pawlik · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-19 21:04:07Z

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Answer for edited question:

var ret = {data: []};

for(var j = 0; j < x.length; j++)
{
    for(var anItem in x[j])
    {
        ret.data.push({
            email: x[j][anItem]
        });
    }
}

console.log(ret);

The result is kept in ret.

answered Apr 19, 2011 at 21:04

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Carmine Ingaldi · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-01 14:55:31Z

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Is it your input in JSON format? Because if so, it's the wrong syntax. However

let _in = [
 {
   office : "[email protected]",
   home : "[email protected]",
   work : "[email protected]",
 },
 {
   home : "[email protected]"
 }
]

let _out = []
_in.forEach( record => {  
   _out =  _out.concat(Object.values(record).map(x => new Object({email : x})))
})

console.log(_out)

for each record I extracted values and "packed" into an object with the "email" attrbiute, then I merged all those arrays obtained from the original array of records

answered Mar 1, 2020 at 14:55

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