# What do you think of this function?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-function/163223>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-function/163223 "2005-09-20T19:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![bandinopla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bandinopla](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bandinopla)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-this-function/163223/1 "2005-09-20T19:35:25Z")

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Hi, I made this function:

function xToArray(b){  
pol=/(.)/g  
a=eval("[’" + b.replace(pol,"’,’") + “’]”)  
return a  
}  
var a=“a.b.c.d.e.f.g”  
var b=xToArray(a)

Now b is an array…