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Piotr Manczak
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I have a variable: let chartLength = 'Hourly'; Does anyone know how to change string 'Hourly' in not string Hourly?

I have a variable: let chartLength = 'Hourly'; Does anyone know how to change string 'Hourly' in not string Hourly? So I can use it as a variable in JS?

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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the name "chartLength" is a variable in this code, one that holds a string.

I'm not sure what you mean by "in not string Hourly". Do you want the variable to hold something other than a string? If so, what?

It also might help a lot to see the actual code.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Now that I see what you were doing, I might have suggested storing the data in a different format. Instead of named variables, you could have created an object where values were associated with keywords. Then the function itself would be both simple and flexible:

function okres(x) {
    return myObject[x];
}

For future questions, be sure to post the code along with the question.

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Thank you for taking your time to answer this question. I have came up with the solution. What I needed was transforming string into non string for example: 'Hello' => Hello So from the string that share this same name with variable into that variable. I have achieved that using function:

function okres(x) {

if ( x == 'Daily' ) {

return Daily;

} else if ( x == 'Hourly' ) {

return Hourly;

} else if ( x == 'Weekly' ) {

return Weekly;

} else if ( x == 'Monthly' ) {

return Monthly;

}

}

Using this function to transform string 'Daily' into Daily I just: okres('Daily'); result: Daily; This function is not flexible because it covers only four cases, but it was enough for my needs(FEWD-project7).