On 2/4/11, Lasse Reichstein <reichsteinatw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Haufe (TNO) <t...@thenewobjective.com
>> wrote:
>
[...]
> It's generally faster to access the characters directly on the primitive
> string value, e.g.,
> var s = "myString";
> alert(s[2]); // 'S'
> instead of
> var s = new String("myString");
> alert(s[2]); // 'S'
> so I would prefer to not generally wrap strings just to support old
> browsers.
There are still a lot of browsers that won't provide property access
for uint properties like that so you'll get undefined with `s[2]`.
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Garrett
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