Is there a software that helps configure structured strings?

Question

I'm using a JavaScript component that takes a 2D array as an input. There is a particular format to it, and I basically need to develop grid GUI to help configure such a string, instead of having to type it manually.

[
  [0,"Chart","linear"],
  [2,"3D",false],
  [1,"Labels",["Student","Business","Professional","Retired"]]
]

Any ideas how to build such a thing quickly?

• Add and remove "rows"
• Cols have a particular format

Answer 1

I'm almost certain that Yahoo User Interface (YUI) component exists to do just that. Looks like Datatable might help you.

As an alternative, it should be easy enough to roll your own:

• A table element

• A JavaScript method to create a new row piece of DOM

• An HTML control to add a row (+button), with onClick or somesuch calling the above method

• A method to loop over all rows in the table and export the data into needed format. [ which format I would strongly suggest to be JSON ]