Converting string "true" / "false" to boolean value [duplicate]

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I have a 开发者_StackOverflowJavaScript string containing "true" or "false".

How may I convert it to boolean without using the eval function?

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var val = (string === "true");

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You could simply have: var result = (str == "true").

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If you're using the variable result:

result = result == "true";