I want to create a multi-level JSON string with JS.

Scenario

3 countries with 5 grandfathers with 3 kids which whom also have 3 kids that have 5 friends.

I get the data from a external JSON file that looks like this.

 {countries:[

    {

        name:USA,



        grandfathers:[

            {

                gFName:Steve,

                grandfathersKid:[

                    {

                        gFKName: Linda,

                        kid: [{

                            name: Steve JR, 

                            friends: [{

                                name: Kriss|John|Martin|Steven

                            }]

                        }

                        ]

                    }



                ]

            }

        ]

    }

]}

And now I want to store some of the countries with people and their relatives and friends in a a new JSON list that looks exactly as the list made in the external json file. I aim to use this homemade list later on in the script.

My initial response for this was

var tree = new Array();



tree = {};





var countries = new Array();



countries[0] = canada;

countries[1] = USA;

countries[2] = Mexico;

countries[0][0] = Steve; //Lives in Canada

countries[0][0][0] = Linda; //Daughter of Steve

countries[0][0][0][0] = Steve JR; // Kid of Linda

countries[0][0][0][0][0] = Kriss; //Steves Friend

...





$.each(countries...function(index, value){

      tree[index].country = value;



  $.each(grandfathers...function(key, value){

      tree[index].country[key].grandfather = value;



}

And so on, but this is not giving me the result I want. What am I doing wrong? And a more effective way than to take each of everything?

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