Exposing a local Javascript function globaly

[comfixit]

Alright I got a really weird application.

I have a couple of functions that I have converted into strings. I then run those through an Eval statement, and they work just as if I had written the functions directly.

Now that the initial tests are successfull I want to abstract my code a bit and run the eval statement inside a function.

The function as it stands now:

	function loadFunction(functionString){
		eval(functionString);
	}

The function is created successfully, but now it is scoped localy and available only inside the function. Is there a way to make the function available globaly like you can do with a variable?

[felgall]

Move it outside of the other function.

[comfixit]

Well if need be I could put some sort of loop at the top level to accomplish this, but I really think that encapsulating everything inside of a function is cleaner. But I guess it becomes sloppy again when I destroy scope and make things global.

If anyone knows how to make a function declared within another function global I would be interested in knowing, otherwise it will have to exist at the top level.

[[pl]FiDO]

What is the format of the function string ? "function name() { .. body ..}" ?
If yes then you can do something like that:

function loadFunction(functionString){
    /function (\w+)\(/.exec(functionString);
    eval('window.'+ RegExp.$1 +' = '+ functionString);
}

If gets function name from the function string and evaluates the code:
window.function_name = function function_name() { ... }
which makes the function accessible globally.