When trying to push a json object, a previously defined variable name is being processed literally. What am I missing?

Question

onLoadLang is a variable declared as "en_us" earlier in the code.

when I try to push using the following:

UdfHeaderFields["translations"].push({ onLoadLang: [{ "H1": "English" }, { "H2": "English" }, { "H3": "English" }, { "H4": "English" }, { "H5": "English" }] });

The onLoadLang portion gets pushed as "onLoadLang" and not "en_us"

Here is what it looks like after the step over.

I have tried surrounding it with various char types to no avail.

Well to the parser it is a key "onLoadLang", it has no clue you are referring to it as a variable. See the duplicate on how to set it as a varaible. — epascarello, Jul 28 '20 at 13:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '20 at 13:13

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You should put square brackets around the variable name if you don't want it to be treated as a literal. Consider this working code example:

let x = "en_us"
let y = []
y.push( { x: "the key is x" } )
y.push( { [x]: "the key is en_us" } )
console.log(y)

answered Jul 28 '20 at 13:13

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This worked. I tried everything except square brackets. /facepalm – iviouse Jul 28 '20 at 13:21

When trying to push a json object, a previously defined variable name is being processed literally. What am I missing?

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