http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263965/how-can-i-convert-a-string-to-boolean-in-javascript
The first answer from the answer list:
You should probably be cautious about using these two methods for your specific needs:
var myBool =Boolean("false");// == true
var myBool =!!"false";// == true
Any string which isn't the empty string will evaluate to true
by using them. Although they're the cleanest methods I can think of concerning to boolean conversion, I think they're not what you're looking for.
About the way you suggested, you could make it stricter by using the identity operator (===
), which doesn't make any implicit type conversions when the compared variables have different types, instead of the equality operator (==
), which does:
var isTrueSet =(myValue ==='true');