Serializing and unserializing an array in javascript

Question

I\'m using the tag-it library for jquery to make a tagging system (a bit like the stackoverflow one).

After the user types his tags the library returns a javascript arra

Answer 1

How about just JSONing it?

var arr = [1,2,3];
var arrSerialized = JSON.stringify(arr);
...

var arrExtracted = JSON.parse(arrSerialized);

By the way, JSON is often used for serializing in some other languages, even though they have their own serializing functions. )