Property value of a String object in JavaScript
- by naivists
As far as I understand, every string is an object in Javascript. Still, it "does not work" as I expect it to be:
var a="abc"; //here we get a new string object
a.b = 123; //I seem to declare a property "b" of that object
alert(a.b); //alerts "undefined"
However, if I try to define a string in the "wrong way", everything works as expected
var a=new String("abc"); //
a.b = 123;
alert(a.b); //alerts "123"
Why is that so?
