I have a bunch of strings in the format 'TYPE_1_VARIABLE_NAME'.
The goal is to get 3 variables in the form of:
varType = 'TYPE',
varNumber = '1',
varName = 'VARIABLE_NAME'
What's the most efficient way of achieving this?
I know I can use:
var firstUnderscore = str.indexOf('_')
varType = str.slice(0, firstUnderscore))
varNumber = str.slice(firstUnderscore+1,firstUnderscore+2)
varName = str.slice(firstUnderscore+3)
but this feels like a poor way of doing it. Is there a better way? RegEx?
Or should I just rename the variable to 'TYPE_1_variableName' and do a:
varArray = str.split('_')
and then get them with:
varType = varArray[0],
varNumber = varArray[1],
varName = varArray[2]
Any help appreciated. jQuery also ok.
Regex solution
Given that the first and second underscores are the delimiters, this regex approach will extract the parts (allowing underscores in the last part):
//input data
var string = 'TYPE_1_VARIABLE_NAME';
//extract parts using .match()
var parts = string.match(/([^_]+)_([^_]+)_([^$]+)/);
//indexes 1 through 3 contains the parts
var varType = parts[1];
var varNumber = parts[2];
var varName = parts[3];
Given that the first variable consists of characters and the second of digits, this more specific regex could be used instead:
var parts = string.match(/(\w+)_(\d)_(.+)/);
Non-regex solution
Using .split('_'), you could do this:
//input data
var string = 'TYPE_1_VARIABLE_NAME';
//extract parts using .split()
var parts = string.split('_');
//indexes 0 and 1 contain the first parts
//the rest of the parts array contains the last part
var varType = parts[0];
var varNumber = parts[1];
var varName = parts.slice(2).join('_');
In matters of efficiency, both approaches contain about the same amount of code.
You could use regex and split
var string='TYPE_1_VARIABLE_NAME';
var div=string.split(/^([A-Z]+)_(\d+)_(\w+)$/);
console.log('type:'+div[1]);
console.log('num:'+div[2]);
console.log('name:'+div[3]);
Here's an answer I found here:
var array = str.split('_'),
type = array[0], number = array[1], name = array[2];
ES6 standardises destructuring assignment, which allows you to do what Firefox has supported for quite a while now:
var [type, number, name] = str.split('_');
You can check browser support using Kangax's compatibility table.
Here's a sample Fiddle
Related
I have a VERY long string containing code from a Rich Text Editor. I need to split this up into 4 parts to save it to the database. I am doing this.
var fullPart = $('#summernote').summernote('code').replace("'", "\'");
var markupStr = fullPart.substring(0, 3000000);
var markupStr2 = fullPart.substring(3000000, 3000000);
var markupStr3 = fullPart.substring(6000000, 3000000);
var markupStr4 = fullPart.substring(6000000);
markupStr, markupStr3 and markupStr4 all contain values, but markupStr2 is empty. What am I doing wrong?
var markupStr2 = fullPart.substring(3000000, 3000000);
Explanation : Start and End index are same in this that is why you are getting empty results.
Check here for more information.
str.substring(indexStart[, indexEnd])
indexStart The index of the first character to include in the returned
substring.
indexEnd Optional. The index of the first character to exclude from
the returned substring.
This is a simple mistake. fullpart.substring(3000000,3000000) would return a string of length of 3,000,000 - 3,000,000 characters (0 characters). The correct way to do this is:
var fullPart = $('#summernote').summernote('code').replace("'", "\'");
var markupStr = fullPart.substring(0, 3000000);
var markupStr2 = fullPart.substring(3000000, 6000000);
var markupStr3 = fullPart.substring(6000000, 9000000);
var markupStr4 = fullPart.substring(12000000);
I'm doing a tracking application for my company and I really need your help
I've got some strings that display it wrong
I'll get the postcode/zipcode and the city name and the "function" (for example distrubition basis)
The string I get is something like that (it's swiss and the format is postcode cityname function)
place = "5506 MägenwilDistributionsbasis";
now postcode is "5506"
cityname is "Mägenwil"
function is "Distributionsbasis"
my question is how can I split the cityname and function (for this example now)?
is it possible to do it with regex or an if statement?
You can split the string using the following regexp:
var myString = "5506 MägenwilDistributionsbasis";
var units = /(\d+ )([A-Z][^A-Z]+)(.+)/g.exec(myString);
Check out contents of array units: there you see units[0] is the whole string, and units[1], units[2], units[3] are what you need.
Note According to comments I must say, it's just a draft for possible solution to let you understand how to start working on the problem in JS. So when you will test your application with more complicated city names and function names in the "magic string", try to figure out what regexp fits your purposes perfectly, because ([A-Z][^A-Z]+) definitly will not match all the known city names.
You could implement that in the most primitive way. Something like this:
place = "5506 MägenwilDistributionsbasis";
var codeAndNameAndFunction = place.split(" ");
var code = codeAndNameAndFunction[0];
var nameAndFunction = codeAndNameAndFunction[1];
var startOfTheFunction;
for (var i = 1, len = nameAndFunction.length; i < len; i++) {
myCharacter = nameAndFunction.charCodeAt(i);
if (myCharacter >= 65 && myCharacter <= 90) {
startOfTheFunction = i;
break;
}
}
var name = nameAndFunction.slice(0, startOfTheFunction);
var functionName = nameAndFunction.slice(startOfTheFunction,nameAndFunction.length);
This is a slight modification of Florian Peschka's answer:
You can split the string using the following regexp:
var myString = "5506 Yverdon-les-BainsDistributionsbasis";
var units = /(\d+ )(.+)([A-Z][^A-Z]+)/g.exec(myString);
Check out contents of array units: there you see units[0] is the whole string, and units[1], units[2], units[3] are what you need.
Note that this will only work if the "function" name is always in the form of Capital Letter followed by Non-capital letters.
Im trying to find a patterns in the sentence for regex matching.. in the code below result contains a string and we are checking if the word apple is present in it.
var patt = /apple/gi;
var newResult = patt.test(result);
I found the above code from a used case.. But i was wondering if i have more than one values and i want to check it in the string result, lets say an array with values var arr=["apple", "orange"] var patt=/arr[0]/gi will not work.. what could be the way in that scenario??
To check multiple entries, you can use the OR operator:
var patt = /apple|orange/gi;
var newResult = patt.test(result);
if you have a variable, you can do the below, IF(!) your key is regexp safe of course (that is, it doesn't contains characters which have meaning in regexp syntax):
var key = "apple";
var patt = new RegExp(key, 'gi');
var newResult = patt.test(result);
Although in this case, you might as well use indexOf:
var key = "apple";
var newResult = result.indexOf(key) > -1;
To use a string for your regex expressions, you need to create the regex using the regex constructor.
var pattern = "apple|orange";
var regex = new RegExp(pattern, "g"); // g is for global match
Read more about it here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions
I want to extract the date and the username from string using .split() in this particular string:
var str ='XxSPMxX on 08/30/2012';
I want XxSPMxX in one variable and 08/30/2012 in the other.
Using just split:
var x = str.split('</a> on ');
var name = x[0].split('>')[1];
var date = x[1];
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/YUaAT/
I don't think split is the right tool for this job. Try this regex:
var str ='XxSPMxX on 08/30/2012',
name = str.match(/[^><]+(?=<)/)[0],
date = str.match(/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/)[0];
Here's the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5ve7Y/
Another way would be to match using a regular expression, build up a small array to get the parts of the anchor, and then use substring to grab the date.
var str = 'XxSPMxX on 08/30/2012';
var matches = [];
str.replace(/[^<]*(<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/a>)/g, function () {
matches.push(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1, 4))
});
var anchorText = matches[0][2];
var theDate = str.substring(str.length - 10, str.length);
console.log(anchorText, theDate);
working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/dkA6D/
i have a string like this .
var url="http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11"
i want to get substrings
http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page
and
5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11
i want to split string from the 7 th slash and make the two sub-strings
how to do this ??,
i looked for split()
but in this case if i use it i have to con-cat the sub-strings and make what i want . is there a easy way ??
try this one:
var url="http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11";
var parts = url.split('/');
var p1 = parts.slice(0,6).join('/');
var p2 = parts.slice(7).join('/');
alert(p1);
alert(p2);
p1 should get the first part and p2 is the second part
You can try this regex. Generally if your url pattern always follow this structure, it will work.
var pattern = /(\w+:\/\/(\w+\/){5})/i;
var url = "http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11";
var result = url.split(pattern);
alert(result[1]);
alert(result[3]);
Try this :
var str = 'http://localhost/elephanti2/chaink/stores/stores_ajax_page/5/b.BusinessName/asc/1/11',
delimiter = '/',
start = 7,
tokens = str.split(delimiter).slice(start),
result = tokens.join(delimiter);
var match = str.match(/([^\/]*\/){5}/)[0];
Find this fiddle