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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

JSObject.eval( ) — evaluate a string of JavaScript code

Availability

Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4

Synopsis

public Object eval(String s)

Arguments

s

A string that contains arbitrary JavaScript statements separated by semicolons.

Returns

The JavaScript value of the last expression evaluated in s, converted to a Java object.

Description

The eval( ) method of the Java JSObject class evaluates the JavaScript code contained in the string s in the context of the JavaScript object specified by the JSObject. The behavior of the eval( ) method of the Java JSObject class is much like that of the JavaScript global eval( ) function.

The argument s may contain any number of JavaScript statements separated by semicolons; these statements are executed in the order in which they appear. The return value of eval( ) is the value of the last statement or expression evaluated in s.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596000480Supplemental ContentCatalog PageErrata