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    <p>My question is essentially that I am trying to make a universal Ajax function solely for retrieving information which will be parsed and then automatically stored as the value of whatever called it. In this specific case it is a giant dictionary word-list for a hangman game I am making. How can I escape the Array that is created by <code>ajaxRequest.responseText.split("\n")</code> into whatever calls it. In my case it will be <code>ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist</code></p> <p><strong>My end goal is to be able to use <code>ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist[i]</code> and have it return the value of whatever string is stored at that place in the Array.</strong></p> <p>Before you freak out this isn't all of my code the XHR request function is called through <code>ALAMI.XHR();</code> as written below but I didn't include it in this code because I felt it was unnecessary. </p> <pre><code>ALAMI.XHR.Get = function(URL){ "use strict"; var ajaxRequest = ALAMI.XHR(); var ajaxResponse; ajaxRequest.open("GET", URL, true); ajaxRequest.send(null); ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){ if(ajaxRequest.readyState === 4){ ajaxResponse = ajaxRequest.responseText.split("\n"); var extensionLocation = URL.lastIndexOf('.'); console.log(URL.substr(extensionLocation) + " file ...... " + ajaxResponse.length + " lines."); } } return ajaxResponse; } ALAMI.Hangman = ALAMI.Hangman || {}; ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist = ALAMI.XHR.Get('fulldictionary.txt'); //I want ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist to be equal to the Array of ajaxRequest.responseText.split("\n") </code></pre> <p><strong>My end goal is to be able to use <code>ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist[i]</code> and have it return the value of whatever string is stored at that place in the Array.</strong></p> <p>Also I'm trying to make my ajax function a universal method that I can use an infinite number of times. for example: </p> <pre><code> ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist1 = ALAMI.XHR.Get('fulldictionary.txt'); ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist2 = ALAMI.XHR.Get('dictionary2.txt'); </code></pre> <p>The end goal is:</p> <p>If in the global space I write <code>console.log(ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist[0]);</code> it currently shows up as undefined, however, what I want is for the array to have been stored in <code>ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist</code> so that when I do that it will ouput the first value of the array.</p> <p><code>console.log(ALAMI.Hangman.Wordlist[0]); //Should output Apple</code></p>
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    1. COMany points: (1) What's ALAMI? (2) `fulldictiornay.txt` does not look like a valid URL to me (3) Did you know that `onreadystatechange` function is executing in a different thread and that any value in onreadystatechange's `ajaxResponse` will be unavailable in the main thread's `return ajaxaResponse` will never work?
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    2. COALAMI is my personal namespace for everything I create in javascript (as opposed to YAHOO or something). and fulldictionary.txt is a valid url because it's in the same folder as the .js file and the html file. Everything about this code works except returning te value of `ajaxResponse`,
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