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Created September 8, 2013 08:32
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Simple plain javascript object clone (not fully tested but it does as much as I need!).
function cloneObject(objectToClone) {
var key, i, clonedArray = [];
var clone = {};
if(typeof objectToClone == "object") {
if(objectToClone.length == undefined) {
for(key in objectToClone){
clone[key] = cloneObject(objectToClone[key]);
}
} else { // we're an array or string
clone = objectToClone.slice(0)
for(i = 0; i < clone.length; i++) {
clone[i] = cloneObject(clone[i]);
}
}
} else { // we're a number or some other basic datatype
clone = objectToClone;
}
return clone;
}
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