to-array
Try convert an object into an Array
Installation
$ component install timoxley/to-array
Examples
// Array-likes
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div') `NodeList` of `HTMLDivElement`
toArray(divs) // => Array of `HTMLDivElement`
(function() {
toArray(arguments) // => [1, 2]
})(1, 2)
// Primitives
toArray('hello') // => ['hello']
toArray(12345) // => [12345]
toArray(/regex/) // => [/regex/]
toArray(null) // => [null]
toArray({}) // => [{}]
toArray(new Date) // => [Wed Nov 07 2012 04:40:26 GMT+1000 (EST)]
// Special cases
toArray(undefined) // => []
toArray(window) // => []
API
toArray(collection): Array
Array-like structures like arguments
, NodeList
or HTMLCollection
, will be converted into Array
s.
Date
, String
, Regex
, null
, Object
, and Function
will
convert into an Array
, with a single element being whatever was
passed to toArray
.
window
and undefined
will return an empty Array
License
MIT