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Some of the incoming objects I handle in my projects have unknown structures; properties I cannot depend on. I decided to try to build a function to help.

function getObjKeys(obj) {
  var keys = [];
  var regex = /"([^:,{}]+)":/g;
  var str = JSON.stringify(obj);
  var m;
  while (m = regex.exec(str)) {
    keys.push(m[1]);
  }
  return keys;
}

My question is, is there a better way of getting all the properties of an object with unknown structure? A mini-question also is; could the regex be improved? This is assuming the object is one level deep. I figure, after getting the keys, one could iterate through them to find other objects and therefore other keys.

Donnie D'Amato
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