Can't get value from key when obj is imported - Teh Forum

<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41790.0&return_msg=41790.5"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41790.1">1–6</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=41790.5">Can't get value from key when obj is imported</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="41790_5_6_10"> <a name="a41790_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_41790_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">12 Aug 2016 12:48</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">5 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41790.5">41790.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Seems to be working now. I had to stick the brackets in the external file & also change its single quotes to double, and switch .dayKey to [dayKey] in the script: <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> $.get('alldatestest.txt', function(data) { var picsObj = JSON.parse(data); alert(dayKey + ' ' + picsObj[dayKey]); });</pre> - returns "0812 100315/5065359-R1-19-20_scaled.jpg"<br /><br /> This was also helpful: <a href="http://json.parser.online.fr/">http://json.parser.online.fr/</a><br /><br /> Thanks Peter!<br /><br /> Edit: to clarify, here's the new "alldatestest.txt" -- I also had to wrap keys in quotes per above online parser:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> {"0810":"images/CNV00016-interim.jpg", "0812": "100315/5065359-R1-19-20_scaled.jpg", "1004": "100315/5065359-R1-19-20_scaled.jpg", "1008": "images/CNV00016-interim.jpg"}</pre> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 12 Aug 2016 13:18 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41790.5&return_msg=41790.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41790.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41790_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_41790_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">19 Aug 2016 16:07</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">6 of 6</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41790.6">41790.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> And now you can browse back and forth through the Daily Bad Pictures*, thanks to stack overflow and their diabolical spell<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> Object.keys(obj).indexOf(key)</pre> <p><br /> (you're not supposed to be able to do indexy stuffs on objects, but there you have it <span class="emoticon e_angel" title="(angel)"><span class="e__">(angel)</span></span> )<br /><br /><a href="http://www.designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htm">http://www.designartcraft.com/photo/afbp.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:8px;">*subject to buggery (NJ), breakage and general fail</span></p> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 19 Aug 2016 16:09 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41790.6&return_msg=41790.5" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41790.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>