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Question

For the nested Object or Array

var obj = {
  foo:
  {
    foo:
    {
      foo:
      {
        foo:
        {
          foo:
          {
            foo: \'         


        

Answer 1

Use JSON.stringify:

var obj = {
  foo:
  {
    foo:
    {
      foo:
      {
        foo:
        {
          foo:
          {
            foo: 'foo'
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
};
console.log(JSON.stringify(obj));

Result:

{"foo":{"foo":{"foo":{"foo":{"foo":{"foo":"foo"}}}}}}

Answer 2

util.inspect() takes a second options argument, where you can specify depth. The default is 2.

http://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options

So:

util = require('util');
var obj = { foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: 'foo' } } } } } };
console.log(util.inspect(obj, {depth:12}));

... yields:

{ foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: { foo: 'foo' } } } } } }