get date out of a variable separated by comma and curly brackets

Question

I am using big commerce and in that there is a product end date and start date . I wanted to get the end date and start date from a kind of value is returning when the product page loads . The values come as

var eventDateData = {type:'3',compDate:'2014/04/18',compDateEnd:'',invalidMessage:'Please choose a valid product listing end date first.',errorMessage:'The product listing end date must be on or before 18th Apr 2014.'}; 

this variable is coming from big commerce . How can i take out the date compDate and compDateEnd in two separate variables ?

Answer 1

Assign them:

var compDate    = eventDateData.compDate,
    compDateEnd = eventDateData.compDateEnd;

Answer 2

You can simply access it using . (simple dot-notation)

console.log(eventDateData.compDate);
console.log(eventDateData.compDateEnd);