Tuesday, 4 July 2017

How do I remove a property from a JavaScript object?



Say I create an object as follows:



var myObject = {
"ircEvent": "PRIVMSG",
"method": "newURI",

"regex": "^http://.*"
};


What is the best way to remove the property regex to end up with new myObject as follows?



var myObject = {
"ircEvent": "PRIVMSG",
"method": "newURI"
};


Answer



Like this:



delete myObject.regex;
// or,
delete myObject['regex'];
// or,
var prop = "regex";
delete myObject[prop];



Demo



var myObject = {
"ircEvent": "PRIVMSG",
"method": "newURI",
"regex": "^http://.*"
};

delete myObject.regex;

console.log(myObject);





For anyone interested in reading more about it, user kangax has written an incredibly in-depth blog post about the delete statement on their blog, Understanding delete. It is highly recommended.


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