The topic may sound vague, so please read on to get the details clarified. Ok I have an array which I called deck as defined below. I remove the last two elements from this array using a function pop_array() that i constructed, and assign the resulting array (deck_minus_player1) to a new variable. Now I want to be able to manipulate both arrays, ie the original deck, and the new deck_minus_player1 created from it, independently. But it seems as if, everytime I run the pop_array() function which creates the new array from the old, the old array automatically morphs into the new one and doesn’t retain all its original contents. So how do I keep my old array (deck) with all its contents unscathed, even after I perform an operation on it? Here’s the code.
<script type = "text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"> </script>
<script type = "text/javascript">
function pop_array(num_popped,array){
for(i=0; i<num_popped; i++){
array.pop();
}
return array;
}//Function end
var deck = ["one","two","three","four","five"];
var deck_minus_player1 = pop_array(2,deck);
for(i=0; i<deck.length; i++){
alert(deck[i]);
}
</script>
So when I run this code, the output is one, two, three instead of one, two , three, four, five as I intended. But if I eliminate the var deck_minus_player1 = pop_array(2,deck); line, i get desired results.