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i have an array channel_chunk 

var channel = "global/private/user/updates/user_following/publisher_id/subcriber_id";

channel_chunk = channel.split("/"),

and i assign this array to another variable

var new_arr =  channel_chunk ;

the problem is

when i changed 

new_arr[0]  = "test";

channel_chunk[0] also becomes test

so i think it is passed by reference when i am assigning , i want to assign channel_chunk by value to new_arr .

i know jQuery.extend will help. but i am using pure JavaScript in this case , so i can not use it , is there a built in function to do this in JavaScript . please help............

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The "official" way to take a (shallow) copy of (part of) an array is .slice():

var new_arr = channel_chunk.slice(0);

[ It's called a "shallow" copy because any objects or arrays therein will still refer to the originals, but the array itself is a whole new copy. As you're using string primitives that won't affect you. ]

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You will need to create a new array. An easy way to do this is simply concat with no args:

var new_arr = channel_chunk.concat();

Now modifying new_arr will have no effect on channel_chunk.

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