I'm new in javascript and I want to create a function to convert a variable to boolean. The variable may containt a boolean, an integer or a string. The conversion have to follow these rules:

For boolean
 

• return the same value

For integer
 

• 0 return false

• all other value return true

For string
 

• equal to 'true'; return true

• equal to 'false'; return false
• len greater than 0; return true
• len equal to 0; retrun false

Any help would be apreciated.

Stéphane

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Stéphane

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:D

you can do something like this:

<script language="javascript">

function getBoolean(variable) {

    var vtype;
    var toReturn;

    if(variable != null) {

        switch(typeof(variable)) {
            case 'boolean':
                vtype = "boolean";
                return variable;
                break;
            case 'number':
                vtype = "number";
                if(variable == 0)
                    toReturn = false;
                else toReturn = true;
                break;
            case 'string':
                vtype = "string";
                if(variable == "true")
                    toReturn = true;
                else if(variable == "false")
                    toReturn = false;
                else if(variable.length > 0)
                    toReturn = true;
                else if(variable.length == 0)
                    toReturn = false;
                break;

                            }
        return toReturn; }
                    }
var ok = false;
getBoolean(ok);

</script>

:D

the genuine genius

Thanks, it work perfectly :)

Stéphane