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Created September 8, 2013 08:32
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  1. kevadsett created this gist Sep 8, 2013.
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    function cloneObject(objectToClone) {
    var key, i, clonedArray = [];
    var clone = {};
    if(typeof objectToClone == "object") {
    if(objectToClone.length == undefined) {
    for(key in objectToClone){
    clone[key] = cloneObject(objectToClone[key]);
    }
    } else { // we're an array or string
    clone = objectToClone.slice(0)
    for(i = 0; i < clone.length; i++) {
    clone[i] = cloneObject(clone[i]);
    }
    }
    } else { // we're a number or some other basic datatype
    clone = objectToClone;
    }
    return clone;
    }