Hi Alex,

Yup, that's it exactly.  The API docs[1] have an example (although
it's pretty minimal) and more importantly, further information about
the parameters.

[1] http://api.prototypejs.org/language/enumerable.html#each-instance_method

-- T.J.

On Sep 24, 11:23 am, "Alex McAuley" <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com>
wrote:
> Thanks TJ.
>
> Do you have an example on the loop ..
>
> Does it go somehing like
>
> items.each(function(item) {
>
>   alert(item.title+ ' ' +item.content);
>
> });
>
> ?
>
> Alex Mcauleyhttp://www.thevacancymarket.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com>
> To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:17 AM
> Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: Json and prototype
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Enumerable#each will loop through the array, or of course just a
> boring old-fashioned for loop is fine. For splitting the strings into
> individual characters, you can use String#split with "" as the
> separator, that gives you back an array of one-character strings
> (which you could use Enumerable#each on, or just a for loop).  For
> appending them to the page, you'd either just append the characters to
> innerHTML (directly or via update) or append spans, whichever performs
> more smoothly in your tests.
>
> FWIW,
> --
> T.J. Crowder
> tj / crowder software / comwww.crowdersoftware.com
>
> On Sep 24, 10:26 am, Alex Mcauley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com>
> wrote:
> > Good morning people.
>
> > I am trying to develop a typewriter module for a website that takes
> > the text from a json array returned by an ajax request. Can prototype
> > handle looping the array that is returned and deal with outputting it
> > to the browser one character at a time?
>
> > The retrurned array from the server will be something along the lines
> > of
>
> > { "items": [
> > { "title: "My first title", "content" : "My first piece of
> > content"},
> > { "title": "My second title", "content": "My second piece of
> > content"},
> > { "title": "My thrid title", "content": "My third piece of
> > content"}
> > ]
>
> > }
>
> > Basicaly i would like to itterate each part of that array and do
> > something with it.
>
> > Does anyone know a good reading source or could nudge me in the right
> > direction of what i should be doing?
>
> > Thanks in advance
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