Name
JSObject.eval( ) — evaluate a string of JavaScript code
Availability
Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 4
Synopsis
public Object eval(String s)Arguments
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s A string that contains arbitrary JavaScript statements separated by semicolons.
Returns
The JavaScript value of the last expression evaluated in
s, converted to a Java object.
Description
The eval( ) method of the Java JSObject class
evaluates the JavaScript code contained in the string
s in the context of the JavaScript object
specified by the JSObject. The behavior of the eval( ) method of the Java JSObject class is much like that of
the JavaScript global eval( ) function.
The argument s may contain any number of
JavaScript statements separated by semicolons; these statements are
executed in the order in which they appear. The return value of
eval( ) is the value of the last statement or
expression evaluated in s.
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