How do I remove a property from a JavaScript object?
To remove a property from an object (mutating the object), you can do it like this:
delete myObject.regex;// or,delete myObject['regex'];// or,var prop = "regex";delete myObject[prop];Demo
var myObject = { "ircEvent": "PRIVMSG", "method": "newURI", "regex": "^http://.*"};delete myObject.regex;console.log(myObject);For anyone interested in reading more about it, Stack Overflow user kangax has written an incredibly in-depth blog post about the delete statement on their blog, Understanding delete. It is highly recommended.
If you'd like a new object with all the keys of the original except some, you could use the destructuring.
Demo
let myObject = { "ircEvent": "PRIVMSG", "method": "newURI", "regex": "^http://.*"};const {regex, ...newObj} = myObject;console.log(newObj); // has no 'regex' keyconsole.log(myObject); // remains unchanged
Objects in JavaScript can be thought of as maps between keys and values. The delete operator is used to remove these keys, more commonly known as object properties, one at a time.
var obj = { myProperty: 1 }console.log(obj.hasOwnProperty('myProperty')) // truedelete obj.myPropertyconsole.log(obj.hasOwnProperty('myProperty')) // falseThe delete operator does not directly free memory, and it differs from simply assigning the value of null or undefined to a property, in that the property itself is removed from the object. Note that if the value of a deleted property was a reference type (an object), and another part of your program still holds a reference to that object, then that object will, of course, not be garbage collected until all references to it have disappeared.
delete will only work on properties whose descriptor marks them as configurable.
var myObject = {"ircEvent": "PRIVMSG", "method": "newURI", "regex": "^http://.*"}; delete myObject.regex;console.log ( myObject.regex); // logs: undefinedThis works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, and I think it works in all others.