JQuery Extends on string

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i have to create a custom function that clone objects despite of their types. IE. an array should be copied as an array, string as string etc.

The result of clonedObject = jQuery.extend(true, {}, object); with arrays is an object with numerical indexes, for string is an object of characters with numerical indexes.

There is a better way to make this work than checking the type of the object and writing custom clone functions?

Thanks in advance, Mattia

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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if you just need a shallow copy you can use as described here

var newCopiedArray=old_array.slice(0);

Check the code snippets here

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Sep 18 '14 at 10:57

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