Tech Thought

Often when coding complex javascript you’ll wish you had the ability to debug objects or arrays that you are working on – much like Data::Dumper in Perl or var_dump in php (see previous posts on these topics). Prototype.js provides an easy way to do this using the .inspect() method for hashes and arrays: var myComplexHash [...]

I am always forgetting the syntax for foreach() loops in javascript. They actually don’t exist (not in their Perl or Php form anyway) and they differ in that they iterate over all the properties of an object, not an array. You can get some unexpected results if you aren’t careful. In perl you do the [...]