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How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript?
I'm trying to split on both commas and spaces, but AFAIK JavaScript's split() function only supports one separator.
Pass in a regexp as the parameter:
js> "Hello awesome, world!".split(/[\s,]+/)
Hello,awesome,world!
Edited to add:
You can get the last element by selecting the length of the array minus 1:
>>> bits = "Hello awesome, world!".split(/[\s,]+/)
["Hello", "awesome", "world!"]
>>> bit = bits[bits.length - 1]
"world!"
... and if the pattern doesn't match:
>>> bits = "Hello awesome, world!".split(/foo/)
["Hello awesome, world!"]
>>> bits[bits.length - 1]
"Hello awesome, world!"
You can pass a regex into JavaScript's split() method. For example:
"1,2 3".split(/,| /)
["1", "2", "3"]
Or, if you want to allow multiple separators together to act as one only:
"1, 2, , 3".split(/(?:,| )+/)
["1", "2", "3"]
You have to use the non-capturing (?:) parenthesis, because
otherwise it gets spliced back into the result. Or you can be smart
like Aaron and use a character class.
Examples tested in Safari and Firefox.
Another simple but effective method is to use split + join repeatedly.
"a=b,c:d".split('=').join(',').split(':').join(',').split(',')
Essentially doing a split followed by a join is like a global replace so this replaces each separator with a comma then once all are replaced it does a final split on comma
The result of the above expression is:
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
Expanding on this you could also place it in a function:
function splitMulti(str, tokens){
var tempChar = tokens[0]; // We can use the first token as a temporary join character
for(var i = 1; i < tokens.length; i++){
str = str.split(tokens[i]).join(tempChar);
}
str = str.split(tempChar);
return str;
}
Usage:
splitMulti('a=b,c:d', ['=', ',', ':']) // ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
If you use this functionality a lot it might even be worth considering wrapping String.prototype.split for convenience (I think my function is fairly safe - the only consideration is the additional overhead of the conditionals (minor) and the fact that it lacks an implementation of the limit argument if an array is passed).
Be sure to include the splitMulti function if using this approach to the below simply wraps it :). Also worth noting that some people frown on extending built-ins (as many people do it wrong and conflicts can occur) so if in doubt speak to someone more senior before using this or ask on SO :)
var splitOrig = String.prototype.split; // Maintain a reference to inbuilt fn
String.prototype.split = function (){
if(arguments[0].length > 0){
if(Object.prototype.toString.call(arguments[0]) == "[object Array]" ) { // Check if our separator is an array
return splitMulti(this, arguments[0]); // Call splitMulti
}
}
return splitOrig.apply(this, arguments); // Call original split maintaining context
};
Usage:
var a = "a=b,c:d";
a.split(['=', ',', ':']); // ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
// Test to check that the built-in split still works (although our wrapper wouldn't work if it didn't as it depends on it :P)
a.split('='); // ["a", "b,c:d"]
Enjoy!
Lets keep it simple: (add a "[ ]+" to your RegEx means "1 or more")
This means "+" and "{1,}" are the same.
var words = text.split(/[ .:;?!~,`"&|()<>{}\[\]\r\n/\\]+/); // note ' and - are kept
Tricky method:
var s = "dasdnk asd, (naks) :d skldma";
var a = s.replace('(',' ').replace(')',' ').replace(',',' ').split(' ');
console.log(a);//["dasdnk", "asd", "naks", ":d", "skldma"]
I'm suprised no one has suggested it yet, but my hack-ey (and crazy fast) solution was to just append several 'replace' calls before splitting by the same character.
i.e. to remove a, b, c, d, and e:
let str = 'afgbfgcfgdfgefg'
let array = str.replace('a','d').replace('b','d').replace('c','d').replace('e','d').split('d')
this can be conveniently generalized for an array of splitters as follows:
function splitByMany( manyArgs, string ) {
do {
let arg = manyArgs.pop()
string = string.replace(arg, manyArgs[0])
} while (manyArgs.length > 2)
return string.split(manyArgs[0])
}
So, in your case, you could then call
let array = splitByMany([" ", ","], 'My long string containing commas, and spaces, and more commas');
For those of you who want more customization in their splitting function, I wrote a recursive algorithm that splits a given string with a list of characters to split on. I wrote this before I saw the above post. I hope it helps some frustrated programmers.
splitString = function(string, splitters) {
var list = [string];
for(var i=0, len=splitters.length; i<len; i++) {
traverseList(list, splitters[i], 0);
}
return flatten(list);
}
traverseList = function(list, splitter, index) {
if(list[index]) {
if((list.constructor !== String) && (list[index].constructor === String))
(list[index] != list[index].split(splitter)) ? list[index] = list[index].split(splitter) : null;
(list[index].constructor === Array) ? traverseList(list[index], splitter, 0) : null;
(list.constructor === Array) ? traverseList(list, splitter, index+1) : null;
}
}
flatten = function(arr) {
return arr.reduce(function(acc, val) {
return acc.concat(val.constructor === Array ? flatten(val) : val);
},[]);
}
var stringToSplit = "people and_other/things";
var splitList = [" ", "_", "/"];
splitString(stringToSplit, splitList);
Example above returns: ["people", "and", "other", "things"]
Note: flatten function was taken from Rosetta Code
You could just lump all the characters you want to use as separators either singularly or collectively into a regular expression and pass them to the split function. For instance you could write:
console.log( "dasdnk asd, (naks) :d skldma".split(/[ \(,\)]+/) );
And the output will be:
["dasdnk", "asd", "naks", ":d", "skldma"]
Here are some cases that may help by using Regex:
\W to match any character else word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]. Example:
("Hello World,I-am code").split(/\W+/); // would return [ 'Hello', 'World', 'I', 'am', 'code' ]
\s+ to match One or more spaces
\d to match a digit
if you want to split by some characters only let us say , and - you can use str.split(/[,-]+/)...etc
My refactor of #Brian answer
var string = 'and this is some kind of information and another text and simple and some egample or red or text';
var separators = ['and', 'or'];
function splitMulti(str, separators){
var tempChar = 't3mp'; //prevent short text separator in split down
//split by regex e.g. \b(or|and)\b
var re = new RegExp('\\b(' + separators.join('|') + ')\\b' , "g");
str = str.replace(re, tempChar).split(tempChar);
// trim & remove empty
return str.map(el => el.trim()).filter(el => el.length > 0);
}
console.log(splitMulti(string, separators))
Here is a new way to achieving same in ES6:
function SplitByString(source, splitBy) {
var splitter = splitBy.split('');
splitter.push([source]); //Push initial value
return splitter.reduceRight(function(accumulator, curValue) {
var k = [];
accumulator.forEach(v => k = [...k, ...v.split(curValue)]);
return k;
});
}
var source = "abc,def#hijk*lmn,opq#rst*uvw,xyz";
var splitBy = ",*#";
console.log(SplitByString(source, splitBy));
Please note in this function:
No Regex involved
Returns splitted value in same order as it appears in source
Result of above code would be:
Hi for example if you have split and replace in String 07:05:45PM
var hour = time.replace("PM", "").split(":");
Result
[ '07', '05', '45' ]
I will provide a classic implementation for a such function. The code works in almost all versions of JavaScript and is somehow optimum.
It doesn't uses regex, which is hard to maintain
It doesn't uses new features of JavaScript
It doesn't uses multiple .split() .join() invocation which require more computer memory
Just pure code:
var text = "Create a function, that will return an array (of string), with the words inside the text";
println(getWords(text));
function getWords(text)
{
let startWord = -1;
let ar = [];
for(let i = 0; i <= text.length; i++)
{
let c = i < text.length ? text[i] : " ";
if (!isSeparator(c) && startWord < 0)
{
startWord = i;
}
if (isSeparator(c) && startWord >= 0)
{
let word = text.substring(startWord, i);
ar.push(word);
startWord = -1;
}
}
return ar;
}
function isSeparator(c)
{
var separators = [" ", "\t", "\n", "\r", ",", ";", ".", "!", "?", "(", ")"];
return separators.includes(c);
}
You can see the code running in playground:
https://codeguppy.com/code.html?IJI0E4OGnkyTZnoszAzf
Splitting URL by .com/ or .net/
url.split(/\.com\/|\.net\//)
a = "a=b,c:d"
array = ['=',',',':'];
for(i=0; i< array.length; i++){ a= a.split(array[i]).join(); }
this will return the string without a special charecter.
I ran into this question wile looking for a replacement for the C# string.Split() function which splits a string using the characters in its argument.
In JavaScript you can do the same using map an reduce to iterate over the splitting characters and the intermediate values:
let splitters = [",", ":", ";"]; // or ",:;".split("");
let start= "a,b;c:d";
let values = splitters.reduce((old, c) => old.map(v => v.split(c)).flat(), [start]);
// values is ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
flat() is used to flatten the intermediate results so each iteration works on a list of strings without nested arrays. Each iteration applies split to all of the values in old and then returns the list of intermediate results to be split by the next value in splitters. reduce() is initialized with an array containing the initial string value.
I find that one of the main reasons I need this is to split file paths on both / and \. It's a bit of a tricky regex so I'll post it here for reference:
var splitFilePath = filePath.split(/[\/\\]/);
I think it's easier if you specify what you wanna leave, instead of what you wanna remove.
As if you wanna have only English words, you can use something like this:
text.match(/[a-z'\-]+/gi);
Examples (run snippet):
var R=[/[a-z'\-]+/gi,/[a-z'\-\s]+/gi];
var s=document.getElementById('s');
for(var i=0;i<R.length;i++)
{
var o=document.createElement('option');
o.innerText=R[i]+'';
o.value=i;
s.appendChild(o);
}
var t=document.getElementById('t');
var r=document.getElementById('r');
s.onchange=function()
{
r.innerHTML='';
var x=s.value;
if((x>=0)&&(x<R.length))
x=t.value.match(R[x]);
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
var li=document.createElement('li');
li.innerText=x[i];
r.appendChild(li);
}
}
<textarea id="t" style="width:70%;height:12em">even, test; spider-man
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
—Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet</textarea>
<p><select id="s">
<option selected>Select a regular expression</option>
<!-- option value="1">/[a-z'\-]+/gi</option>
<option value="2">/[a-z'\-\s]+/gi</option -->
</select></p>
<ol id="r" style="display:block;width:auto;border:1px inner;overflow:scroll;height:8em;max-height:10em;"></ol>
</div>
I don't know the performance of RegEx, but here is another alternative for RegEx leverages native HashSet and works in O( max(str.length, delimeter.length) ) complexity instead:
var multiSplit = function(str,delimiter){
if (!(delimiter instanceof Array))
return str.split(delimiter);
if (!delimiter || delimiter.length == 0)
return [str];
var hashSet = new Set(delimiter);
if (hashSet.has(""))
return str.split("");
var lastIndex = 0;
var result = [];
for(var i = 0;i<str.length;i++){
if (hashSet.has(str[i])){
result.push(str.substring(lastIndex,i));
lastIndex = i+1;
}
}
result.push(str.substring(lastIndex));
return result;
}
multiSplit('1,2,3.4.5.6 7 8 9',[',','.',' ']);
// Output: ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"]
multiSplit('1,2,3.4.5.6 7 8 9',' ');
// Output: ["1,2,3.4.5.6", "7", "8", "9"]
I solved this with reduce and filter. It might not be the most readable solution, or the fastest, and in real life I would probably use Aarons answere here, but it was fun to write.
[' ','_','-','.',',',':','#'].reduce(
(segs, sep) => segs.reduce(
(out, seg) => out.concat(seg.split(sep)), []),
['E-mail Address: user#domain.com, Phone Number: +1-800-555-0011']
).filter(x => x)
Or as a function:
function msplit(str, seps) {
return seps.reduce((segs, sep) => segs.reduce(
(out, seg) => out.concat(seg.split(sep)), []
), [str]).filter(x => x);
}
This will output:
['E','mail','Address','user','domain','com','0','Phone','Number','+1','800','555','0011']
Without the filter at the end you would get empty strings in the array where two different separators are next to each other.
Not the best way but works to Split with Multiple and Different seperators/delimiters
html
<button onclick="myFunction()">Split with Multiple and Different seperators/delimiters</button>
<p id="demo"></p>
javascript
<script>
function myFunction() {
var str = "How : are | you doing : today?";
var res = str.split(' | ');
var str2 = '';
var i;
for (i = 0; i < res.length; i++) {
str2 += res[i];
if (i != res.length-1) {
str2 += ",";
}
}
var res2 = str2.split(' : ');
//you can add countless options (with or without space)
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = res2;
}
</script>
Starting from #stephen-sweriduk solution (that was the more interesting to me!), I have slightly modified it to make more generic and reusable:
/**
* Adapted from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/650022/how-do-i-split-a-string-with-multiple-separators-in-javascript
*/
var StringUtils = {
/**
* Flatten a list of strings
* http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Flatten_a_list
*/
flatten : function(arr) {
var self=this;
return arr.reduce(function(acc, val) {
return acc.concat(val.constructor === Array ? self.flatten(val) : val);
},[]);
},
/**
* Recursively Traverse a list and apply a function to each item
* #param list array
* #param expression Expression to use in func
* #param func function of (item,expression) to apply expression to item
*
*/
traverseListFunc : function(list, expression, index, func) {
var self=this;
if(list[index]) {
if((list.constructor !== String) && (list[index].constructor === String))
(list[index] != func(list[index], expression)) ? list[index] = func(list[index], expression) : null;
(list[index].constructor === Array) ? self.traverseListFunc(list[index], expression, 0, func) : null;
(list.constructor === Array) ? self.traverseListFunc(list, expression, index+1, func) : null;
}
},
/**
* Recursively map function to string
* #param string
* #param expression Expression to apply to func
* #param function of (item, expressions[i])
*/
mapFuncToString : function(string, expressions, func) {
var self=this;
var list = [string];
for(var i=0, len=expressions.length; i<len; i++) {
self.traverseListFunc(list, expressions[i], 0, func);
}
return self.flatten(list);
},
/**
* Split a string
* #param splitters Array of characters to apply the split
*/
splitString : function(string, splitters) {
return this.mapFuncToString(string, splitters, function(item, expression) {
return item.split(expression);
})
},
}
and then
var stringToSplit = "people and_other/things";
var splitList = [" ", "_", "/"];
var splittedString=StringUtils.splitString(stringToSplit, splitList);
console.log(splitList, stringToSplit, splittedString);
that gives back as the original:
[ ' ', '_', '/' ] 'people and_other/things' [ 'people', 'and', 'other', 'things' ]
An easy way to do this is to process each character of the string with each delimiter and build an array of the splits:
splix = function ()
{
u = [].slice.call(arguments); v = u.slice(1); u = u[0]; w = [u]; x = 0;
for (i = 0; i < u.length; ++i)
{
for (j = 0; j < v.length; ++j)
{
if (u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) == v[j])
{
y = w[x].split(v[j]); w[x] = y[0]; w[++x] = y[1];
};
};
};
return w;
};
console.logg = function ()
{
document.body.innerHTML += "<br>" + [].slice.call(arguments).join();
}
splix = function() {
u = [].slice.call(arguments);
v = u.slice(1);
u = u[0];
w = [u];
x = 0;
console.logg("Processing: <code>" + JSON.stringify(w) + "</code>");
for (i = 0; i < u.length; ++i) {
for (j = 0; j < v.length; ++j) {
console.logg("Processing: <code>[\x22" + u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) + "\x22, \x22" + v[j] + "\x22]</code>");
if (u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) == v[j]) {
y = w[x].split(v[j]);
w[x] = y[0];
w[++x] = y[1];
console.logg("Currently processed: " + JSON.stringify(w) + "\n");
};
};
};
console.logg("Return: <code>" + JSON.stringify(w) + "</code>");
};
setTimeout(function() {
console.clear();
splix("1.23--4", ".", "--");
}, 250);
#import url("http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto");
body {font: 20px Roboto;}
Usage: splix(string, delimiters...)
Example: splix("1.23--4", ".", "--")
Returns: ["1", "23", "4"]
Check out my simple library on Github
If you really do not want to visit or interact with the repo, here is the working code:
/**
*
* #param {type} input The string input to be split
* #param {type} includeTokensInOutput If true, the tokens are retained in the splitted output.
* #param {type} tokens The tokens to be employed in splitting the original string.
* #returns {Scanner}
*/
function Scanner(input, includeTokensInOutput, tokens) {
this.input = input;
this.includeTokensInOutput = includeTokensInOutput;
this.tokens = tokens;
}
Scanner.prototype.scan = function () {
var inp = this.input;
var parse = [];
this.tokens.sort(function (a, b) {
return b.length - a.length; //ASC, For Descending order use: b - a
});
for (var i = 0; i < inp.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < this.tokens.length; j++) {
var token = this.tokens[j];
var len = token.length;
if (len > 0 && i + len <= inp.length) {
var portion = inp.substring(i, i + len);
if (portion === token) {
if (i !== 0) {//avoid empty spaces
parse[parse.length] = inp.substring(0, i);
}
if (this.includeTokensInOutput) {
parse[parse.length] = token;
}
inp = inp.substring(i + len);
i = -1;
break;
}
}
}
}
if (inp.length > 0) {
parse[parse.length] = inp;
}
return parse;
};
The usage is very straightforward:
var tokens = new Scanner("ABC+DE-GHIJK+LMNOP", false , new Array('+','-')).scan();
console.log(tokens);
Gives:
['ABC', 'DE', 'GHIJK', 'LMNOP']
And if you wish to include the splitting tokens (+ and -) in the output, set the false to true and voila! it still works.
The usage would now be:
var tokens = new Scanner("ABC+DE-GHIJK+LMNOP", true , new Array('+','-')).scan();
and
console.log(tokens);
would give:
['ABC', '+', 'DE', '-', 'GHIJK', '+', 'LMNOP']
ENJOY!
I use regexp:
str = 'Write a program that extracts from a given text all palindromes, e.g. "ABBA", "lamal", "exe".';
var strNew = str.match(/\w+/g);
// Output: ["Write", "a", "program", "that", "extracts", "from", "a", "given", "text", "all", "palindromes", "e", "g", "ABBA", "lamal", "exe"]
How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript?
I'm trying to split on both commas and spaces, but AFAIK JavaScript's split() function only supports one separator.
Pass in a regexp as the parameter:
js> "Hello awesome, world!".split(/[\s,]+/)
Hello,awesome,world!
Edited to add:
You can get the last element by selecting the length of the array minus 1:
>>> bits = "Hello awesome, world!".split(/[\s,]+/)
["Hello", "awesome", "world!"]
>>> bit = bits[bits.length - 1]
"world!"
... and if the pattern doesn't match:
>>> bits = "Hello awesome, world!".split(/foo/)
["Hello awesome, world!"]
>>> bits[bits.length - 1]
"Hello awesome, world!"
You can pass a regex into JavaScript's split() method. For example:
"1,2 3".split(/,| /)
["1", "2", "3"]
Or, if you want to allow multiple separators together to act as one only:
"1, 2, , 3".split(/(?:,| )+/)
["1", "2", "3"]
You have to use the non-capturing (?:) parenthesis, because
otherwise it gets spliced back into the result. Or you can be smart
like Aaron and use a character class.
Examples tested in Safari and Firefox.
Another simple but effective method is to use split + join repeatedly.
"a=b,c:d".split('=').join(',').split(':').join(',').split(',')
Essentially doing a split followed by a join is like a global replace so this replaces each separator with a comma then once all are replaced it does a final split on comma
The result of the above expression is:
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
Expanding on this you could also place it in a function:
function splitMulti(str, tokens){
var tempChar = tokens[0]; // We can use the first token as a temporary join character
for(var i = 1; i < tokens.length; i++){
str = str.split(tokens[i]).join(tempChar);
}
str = str.split(tempChar);
return str;
}
Usage:
splitMulti('a=b,c:d', ['=', ',', ':']) // ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
If you use this functionality a lot it might even be worth considering wrapping String.prototype.split for convenience (I think my function is fairly safe - the only consideration is the additional overhead of the conditionals (minor) and the fact that it lacks an implementation of the limit argument if an array is passed).
Be sure to include the splitMulti function if using this approach to the below simply wraps it :). Also worth noting that some people frown on extending built-ins (as many people do it wrong and conflicts can occur) so if in doubt speak to someone more senior before using this or ask on SO :)
var splitOrig = String.prototype.split; // Maintain a reference to inbuilt fn
String.prototype.split = function (){
if(arguments[0].length > 0){
if(Object.prototype.toString.call(arguments[0]) == "[object Array]" ) { // Check if our separator is an array
return splitMulti(this, arguments[0]); // Call splitMulti
}
}
return splitOrig.apply(this, arguments); // Call original split maintaining context
};
Usage:
var a = "a=b,c:d";
a.split(['=', ',', ':']); // ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
// Test to check that the built-in split still works (although our wrapper wouldn't work if it didn't as it depends on it :P)
a.split('='); // ["a", "b,c:d"]
Enjoy!
Lets keep it simple: (add a "[ ]+" to your RegEx means "1 or more")
This means "+" and "{1,}" are the same.
var words = text.split(/[ .:;?!~,`"&|()<>{}\[\]\r\n/\\]+/); // note ' and - are kept
Tricky method:
var s = "dasdnk asd, (naks) :d skldma";
var a = s.replace('(',' ').replace(')',' ').replace(',',' ').split(' ');
console.log(a);//["dasdnk", "asd", "naks", ":d", "skldma"]
I'm suprised no one has suggested it yet, but my hack-ey (and crazy fast) solution was to just append several 'replace' calls before splitting by the same character.
i.e. to remove a, b, c, d, and e:
let str = 'afgbfgcfgdfgefg'
let array = str.replace('a','d').replace('b','d').replace('c','d').replace('e','d').split('d')
this can be conveniently generalized for an array of splitters as follows:
function splitByMany( manyArgs, string ) {
do {
let arg = manyArgs.pop()
string = string.replace(arg, manyArgs[0])
} while (manyArgs.length > 2)
return string.split(manyArgs[0])
}
So, in your case, you could then call
let array = splitByMany([" ", ","], 'My long string containing commas, and spaces, and more commas');
For those of you who want more customization in their splitting function, I wrote a recursive algorithm that splits a given string with a list of characters to split on. I wrote this before I saw the above post. I hope it helps some frustrated programmers.
splitString = function(string, splitters) {
var list = [string];
for(var i=0, len=splitters.length; i<len; i++) {
traverseList(list, splitters[i], 0);
}
return flatten(list);
}
traverseList = function(list, splitter, index) {
if(list[index]) {
if((list.constructor !== String) && (list[index].constructor === String))
(list[index] != list[index].split(splitter)) ? list[index] = list[index].split(splitter) : null;
(list[index].constructor === Array) ? traverseList(list[index], splitter, 0) : null;
(list.constructor === Array) ? traverseList(list, splitter, index+1) : null;
}
}
flatten = function(arr) {
return arr.reduce(function(acc, val) {
return acc.concat(val.constructor === Array ? flatten(val) : val);
},[]);
}
var stringToSplit = "people and_other/things";
var splitList = [" ", "_", "/"];
splitString(stringToSplit, splitList);
Example above returns: ["people", "and", "other", "things"]
Note: flatten function was taken from Rosetta Code
You could just lump all the characters you want to use as separators either singularly or collectively into a regular expression and pass them to the split function. For instance you could write:
console.log( "dasdnk asd, (naks) :d skldma".split(/[ \(,\)]+/) );
And the output will be:
["dasdnk", "asd", "naks", ":d", "skldma"]
Here are some cases that may help by using Regex:
\W to match any character else word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]. Example:
("Hello World,I-am code").split(/\W+/); // would return [ 'Hello', 'World', 'I', 'am', 'code' ]
\s+ to match One or more spaces
\d to match a digit
if you want to split by some characters only let us say , and - you can use str.split(/[,-]+/)...etc
My refactor of #Brian answer
var string = 'and this is some kind of information and another text and simple and some egample or red or text';
var separators = ['and', 'or'];
function splitMulti(str, separators){
var tempChar = 't3mp'; //prevent short text separator in split down
//split by regex e.g. \b(or|and)\b
var re = new RegExp('\\b(' + separators.join('|') + ')\\b' , "g");
str = str.replace(re, tempChar).split(tempChar);
// trim & remove empty
return str.map(el => el.trim()).filter(el => el.length > 0);
}
console.log(splitMulti(string, separators))
Here is a new way to achieving same in ES6:
function SplitByString(source, splitBy) {
var splitter = splitBy.split('');
splitter.push([source]); //Push initial value
return splitter.reduceRight(function(accumulator, curValue) {
var k = [];
accumulator.forEach(v => k = [...k, ...v.split(curValue)]);
return k;
});
}
var source = "abc,def#hijk*lmn,opq#rst*uvw,xyz";
var splitBy = ",*#";
console.log(SplitByString(source, splitBy));
Please note in this function:
No Regex involved
Returns splitted value in same order as it appears in source
Result of above code would be:
Hi for example if you have split and replace in String 07:05:45PM
var hour = time.replace("PM", "").split(":");
Result
[ '07', '05', '45' ]
I will provide a classic implementation for a such function. The code works in almost all versions of JavaScript and is somehow optimum.
It doesn't uses regex, which is hard to maintain
It doesn't uses new features of JavaScript
It doesn't uses multiple .split() .join() invocation which require more computer memory
Just pure code:
var text = "Create a function, that will return an array (of string), with the words inside the text";
println(getWords(text));
function getWords(text)
{
let startWord = -1;
let ar = [];
for(let i = 0; i <= text.length; i++)
{
let c = i < text.length ? text[i] : " ";
if (!isSeparator(c) && startWord < 0)
{
startWord = i;
}
if (isSeparator(c) && startWord >= 0)
{
let word = text.substring(startWord, i);
ar.push(word);
startWord = -1;
}
}
return ar;
}
function isSeparator(c)
{
var separators = [" ", "\t", "\n", "\r", ",", ";", ".", "!", "?", "(", ")"];
return separators.includes(c);
}
You can see the code running in playground:
https://codeguppy.com/code.html?IJI0E4OGnkyTZnoszAzf
Splitting URL by .com/ or .net/
url.split(/\.com\/|\.net\//)
a = "a=b,c:d"
array = ['=',',',':'];
for(i=0; i< array.length; i++){ a= a.split(array[i]).join(); }
this will return the string without a special charecter.
I ran into this question wile looking for a replacement for the C# string.Split() function which splits a string using the characters in its argument.
In JavaScript you can do the same using map an reduce to iterate over the splitting characters and the intermediate values:
let splitters = [",", ":", ";"]; // or ",:;".split("");
let start= "a,b;c:d";
let values = splitters.reduce((old, c) => old.map(v => v.split(c)).flat(), [start]);
// values is ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
flat() is used to flatten the intermediate results so each iteration works on a list of strings without nested arrays. Each iteration applies split to all of the values in old and then returns the list of intermediate results to be split by the next value in splitters. reduce() is initialized with an array containing the initial string value.
I find that one of the main reasons I need this is to split file paths on both / and \. It's a bit of a tricky regex so I'll post it here for reference:
var splitFilePath = filePath.split(/[\/\\]/);
I think it's easier if you specify what you wanna leave, instead of what you wanna remove.
As if you wanna have only English words, you can use something like this:
text.match(/[a-z'\-]+/gi);
Examples (run snippet):
var R=[/[a-z'\-]+/gi,/[a-z'\-\s]+/gi];
var s=document.getElementById('s');
for(var i=0;i<R.length;i++)
{
var o=document.createElement('option');
o.innerText=R[i]+'';
o.value=i;
s.appendChild(o);
}
var t=document.getElementById('t');
var r=document.getElementById('r');
s.onchange=function()
{
r.innerHTML='';
var x=s.value;
if((x>=0)&&(x<R.length))
x=t.value.match(R[x]);
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
var li=document.createElement('li');
li.innerText=x[i];
r.appendChild(li);
}
}
<textarea id="t" style="width:70%;height:12em">even, test; spider-man
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
—Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet</textarea>
<p><select id="s">
<option selected>Select a regular expression</option>
<!-- option value="1">/[a-z'\-]+/gi</option>
<option value="2">/[a-z'\-\s]+/gi</option -->
</select></p>
<ol id="r" style="display:block;width:auto;border:1px inner;overflow:scroll;height:8em;max-height:10em;"></ol>
</div>
I don't know the performance of RegEx, but here is another alternative for RegEx leverages native HashSet and works in O( max(str.length, delimeter.length) ) complexity instead:
var multiSplit = function(str,delimiter){
if (!(delimiter instanceof Array))
return str.split(delimiter);
if (!delimiter || delimiter.length == 0)
return [str];
var hashSet = new Set(delimiter);
if (hashSet.has(""))
return str.split("");
var lastIndex = 0;
var result = [];
for(var i = 0;i<str.length;i++){
if (hashSet.has(str[i])){
result.push(str.substring(lastIndex,i));
lastIndex = i+1;
}
}
result.push(str.substring(lastIndex));
return result;
}
multiSplit('1,2,3.4.5.6 7 8 9',[',','.',' ']);
// Output: ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"]
multiSplit('1,2,3.4.5.6 7 8 9',' ');
// Output: ["1,2,3.4.5.6", "7", "8", "9"]
I solved this with reduce and filter. It might not be the most readable solution, or the fastest, and in real life I would probably use Aarons answere here, but it was fun to write.
[' ','_','-','.',',',':','#'].reduce(
(segs, sep) => segs.reduce(
(out, seg) => out.concat(seg.split(sep)), []),
['E-mail Address: user#domain.com, Phone Number: +1-800-555-0011']
).filter(x => x)
Or as a function:
function msplit(str, seps) {
return seps.reduce((segs, sep) => segs.reduce(
(out, seg) => out.concat(seg.split(sep)), []
), [str]).filter(x => x);
}
This will output:
['E','mail','Address','user','domain','com','0','Phone','Number','+1','800','555','0011']
Without the filter at the end you would get empty strings in the array where two different separators are next to each other.
Not the best way but works to Split with Multiple and Different seperators/delimiters
html
<button onclick="myFunction()">Split with Multiple and Different seperators/delimiters</button>
<p id="demo"></p>
javascript
<script>
function myFunction() {
var str = "How : are | you doing : today?";
var res = str.split(' | ');
var str2 = '';
var i;
for (i = 0; i < res.length; i++) {
str2 += res[i];
if (i != res.length-1) {
str2 += ",";
}
}
var res2 = str2.split(' : ');
//you can add countless options (with or without space)
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = res2;
}
</script>
Starting from #stephen-sweriduk solution (that was the more interesting to me!), I have slightly modified it to make more generic and reusable:
/**
* Adapted from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/650022/how-do-i-split-a-string-with-multiple-separators-in-javascript
*/
var StringUtils = {
/**
* Flatten a list of strings
* http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Flatten_a_list
*/
flatten : function(arr) {
var self=this;
return arr.reduce(function(acc, val) {
return acc.concat(val.constructor === Array ? self.flatten(val) : val);
},[]);
},
/**
* Recursively Traverse a list and apply a function to each item
* #param list array
* #param expression Expression to use in func
* #param func function of (item,expression) to apply expression to item
*
*/
traverseListFunc : function(list, expression, index, func) {
var self=this;
if(list[index]) {
if((list.constructor !== String) && (list[index].constructor === String))
(list[index] != func(list[index], expression)) ? list[index] = func(list[index], expression) : null;
(list[index].constructor === Array) ? self.traverseListFunc(list[index], expression, 0, func) : null;
(list.constructor === Array) ? self.traverseListFunc(list, expression, index+1, func) : null;
}
},
/**
* Recursively map function to string
* #param string
* #param expression Expression to apply to func
* #param function of (item, expressions[i])
*/
mapFuncToString : function(string, expressions, func) {
var self=this;
var list = [string];
for(var i=0, len=expressions.length; i<len; i++) {
self.traverseListFunc(list, expressions[i], 0, func);
}
return self.flatten(list);
},
/**
* Split a string
* #param splitters Array of characters to apply the split
*/
splitString : function(string, splitters) {
return this.mapFuncToString(string, splitters, function(item, expression) {
return item.split(expression);
})
},
}
and then
var stringToSplit = "people and_other/things";
var splitList = [" ", "_", "/"];
var splittedString=StringUtils.splitString(stringToSplit, splitList);
console.log(splitList, stringToSplit, splittedString);
that gives back as the original:
[ ' ', '_', '/' ] 'people and_other/things' [ 'people', 'and', 'other', 'things' ]
An easy way to do this is to process each character of the string with each delimiter and build an array of the splits:
splix = function ()
{
u = [].slice.call(arguments); v = u.slice(1); u = u[0]; w = [u]; x = 0;
for (i = 0; i < u.length; ++i)
{
for (j = 0; j < v.length; ++j)
{
if (u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) == v[j])
{
y = w[x].split(v[j]); w[x] = y[0]; w[++x] = y[1];
};
};
};
return w;
};
console.logg = function ()
{
document.body.innerHTML += "<br>" + [].slice.call(arguments).join();
}
splix = function() {
u = [].slice.call(arguments);
v = u.slice(1);
u = u[0];
w = [u];
x = 0;
console.logg("Processing: <code>" + JSON.stringify(w) + "</code>");
for (i = 0; i < u.length; ++i) {
for (j = 0; j < v.length; ++j) {
console.logg("Processing: <code>[\x22" + u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) + "\x22, \x22" + v[j] + "\x22]</code>");
if (u.slice(i, i + v[j].length) == v[j]) {
y = w[x].split(v[j]);
w[x] = y[0];
w[++x] = y[1];
console.logg("Currently processed: " + JSON.stringify(w) + "\n");
};
};
};
console.logg("Return: <code>" + JSON.stringify(w) + "</code>");
};
setTimeout(function() {
console.clear();
splix("1.23--4", ".", "--");
}, 250);
#import url("http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto");
body {font: 20px Roboto;}
Usage: splix(string, delimiters...)
Example: splix("1.23--4", ".", "--")
Returns: ["1", "23", "4"]
Check out my simple library on Github
If you really do not want to visit or interact with the repo, here is the working code:
/**
*
* #param {type} input The string input to be split
* #param {type} includeTokensInOutput If true, the tokens are retained in the splitted output.
* #param {type} tokens The tokens to be employed in splitting the original string.
* #returns {Scanner}
*/
function Scanner(input, includeTokensInOutput, tokens) {
this.input = input;
this.includeTokensInOutput = includeTokensInOutput;
this.tokens = tokens;
}
Scanner.prototype.scan = function () {
var inp = this.input;
var parse = [];
this.tokens.sort(function (a, b) {
return b.length - a.length; //ASC, For Descending order use: b - a
});
for (var i = 0; i < inp.length; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < this.tokens.length; j++) {
var token = this.tokens[j];
var len = token.length;
if (len > 0 && i + len <= inp.length) {
var portion = inp.substring(i, i + len);
if (portion === token) {
if (i !== 0) {//avoid empty spaces
parse[parse.length] = inp.substring(0, i);
}
if (this.includeTokensInOutput) {
parse[parse.length] = token;
}
inp = inp.substring(i + len);
i = -1;
break;
}
}
}
}
if (inp.length > 0) {
parse[parse.length] = inp;
}
return parse;
};
The usage is very straightforward:
var tokens = new Scanner("ABC+DE-GHIJK+LMNOP", false , new Array('+','-')).scan();
console.log(tokens);
Gives:
['ABC', 'DE', 'GHIJK', 'LMNOP']
And if you wish to include the splitting tokens (+ and -) in the output, set the false to true and voila! it still works.
The usage would now be:
var tokens = new Scanner("ABC+DE-GHIJK+LMNOP", true , new Array('+','-')).scan();
and
console.log(tokens);
would give:
['ABC', '+', 'DE', '-', 'GHIJK', '+', 'LMNOP']
ENJOY!
I use regexp:
str = 'Write a program that extracts from a given text all palindromes, e.g. "ABBA", "lamal", "exe".';
var strNew = str.match(/\w+/g);
// Output: ["Write", "a", "program", "that", "extracts", "from", "a", "given", "text", "all", "palindromes", "e", "g", "ABBA", "lamal", "exe"]
Given string in the form:
'"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)'
How can I split it to get the below array format:
abc
ab()
c(d(),e())
f(g(),zyx)
h(123)
I have tried normal javascript split, however it doesn't work as desired. Trying Regular Expression but not yet successful.
You can keep track of the parentheses, and add those expressions when the left and right parens equalize.
For example-
function splitNoParen(s){
var left= 0, right= 0, A= [],
M= s.match(/([^()]+)|([()])/g), L= M.length, next, str= '';
for(var i= 0; i<L; i++){
next= M[i];
if(next=== '(')++left;
else if(next=== ')')++right;
if(left!== 0){
str+= next;
if(left=== right){
A[A.length-1]+=str;
left= right= 0;
str= '';
}
}
else A=A.concat(next.match(/([^,]+)/g));
}
return A;
}
var s1= '"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)';
splitNoParen(s1).join('\n');
/* returned value: (String)
"abc"
ab()
c(d(),e())
f(g(),zyx)
h(123)
*/
This might be not the best or more refined solution, and also maybe won't fit every single possibility, but based on your example it works:
var data = '"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)';
// Create a preResult splitting the commas.
var preResult = data.replace(/"/g, '').split(',');
// Create an empty result.
var result = [];
for (var i = 0; i < preResult.length; i++) {
// Check on every preResult if the number of parentheses match.
// Opening ones...
var opening = preResult[i].match(/\(/g) || 0;
// Closing ones...
var closing = preResult[i].match(/\)/g) || 0;
if (opening != 0 &&
closing != 0 &&
opening.length != closing.length) {
// If the current item contains a different number of opening
// and closing parentheses, merge it with the next adding a
// comma in between.
result.push(preResult[i] + ',' + preResult[i + 1]);
i++;
} else {
// Leave it as it is.
result.push(preResult[i]);
}
}
Demo
For future reference, here's another approach to top-level splitting, using string.replace as a control flow operator:
function psplit(s) {
var depth = 0, seg = 0, rv = [];
s.replace(/[^(),]*([)]*)([(]*)(,)?/g,
function (m, cls, opn, com, off, s) {
depth += opn.length - cls.length;
var newseg = off + m.length;
if (!depth && com) {
rv.push(s.substring(seg, newseg - 1));
seg = newseg;
}
return m;
});
rv.push(s.substring(seg));
return rv;
}
console.log(psplit('abc,ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)'))
["abc", "ab()", "c(d(),e())", "f(g(),zyx)", "h(123)"]
Getting it to handle quotes as well would not be too complicated, but at some point you need to decide to use a real parser such as jison, and I suspect that would be the point. In any event, there's not enough detail in the question to know what the desired handling of double quotes is.
You can't use .split for this, but instead you'll have to write a small parser like this:
function splitNoParen(s){
let results = [];
let next;
let str = '';
let left = 0, right = 0;
function keepResult() {
results.push(str);
str = '';
}
for(var i = 0; i<s.length; i++) {
switch(s[i]) {
case ',':
if((left === right)) {
keepResult();
left = right = 0;
} else {
str += s[i];
}
break;
case '(':
left++;
str += s[i];
break;
case ')':
right++;
str += s[i];
break;
default:
str += s[i];
}
}
keepResult();
return results;
}
var s1= '"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)';
console.log(splitNoParen(s1).join('\n'));
var s2='cats,(my-foo)-bar,baz';
console.log(splitNoParen(s2).join('\n'));
Had a similar issue and existing solutions were hard to generalize. So here's another parser that's a bit more readable and easier to extend to your personal needs. It'll also work with curly braces, brackets, normal braces, and strings of any type. License is MIT.
/**
* This function takes an input string and splits it by the given token, but only if the token is not inside
* braces of any kind, or a string.
* #param {string} input The string to split.
* #param {string} split_by Must be a single character.
* #returns {string[]} An array of split parts without the split_by character.
*/
export function parse_split(input:string, split_by:string = ",") : string[]
{
// Javascript has 3 types of strings
const STRING_TYPES = ["'","`","\""] as const;
// Some symbols can be nested, like braces, and must be counted
const state = {"{":0,"[":0,"(":0};
// Some cannot be nested, like a string, and just flip a flag.
// Additionally, once the string flag has been flipped, it can only be unflipped
// by the same token.
let string_state : (typeof STRING_TYPES)[number] | undefined = undefined
// Nestable symbols come in sets, usually in pairs.
// These sets increase or decrease the state, depending on the symbol.
const pairs : Record<string,[keyof typeof state,number]> = {
"{":["{",1],
"}":["{",-1],
"[":["[",1],
"]":["[",-1],
"(":["(",1],
")":["(",-1]
}
let start = 0;
let results = [];
let length = input.length;
for(let i = 0; i < length; ++i)
{
let char = input[i];
// Backslash escapes the next character. We directly skip 2 characters by incrementing i one extra time.
if(char === "\\")
{
i++;
continue;
}
// If the symbol exists in the single/not nested state object, flip the corresponding state flag.
if(char == string_state)
{
string_state = undefined;
console.log("Closed string ", string_state);
}
// if it's not in a string, but it's a string opener, remember the string type in string_state.
else if(string_state === undefined && STRING_TYPES.includes(char as typeof STRING_TYPES[number]))
{
string_state = char as typeof STRING_TYPES[number];
}
// If it's not in a string, and if it's a paired symbol, increase or decrease the state based on our "pairs" constant.
else if(string_state === undefined && (char in pairs) )
{
let [key,value] = pairs[char];
state[key] += value;
}
// If it's our split symbol...
else if(char === split_by)
{
// ... check whether any flags are active ...
if(Object.entries(state).every(([k,v])=>v == 0) && (string_state === undefined))
{
// ... if not, then this is a valid split.
results.push(input.substring(start,i))
start = i+1;
}
}
}
// Add the last segment if the string didn't end in the split_by symbol, otherwise add an empty string
if(start < input.length)
{
results.push(input.substring(start,input.length))
}
else
results.push("");
return results;
}
With this regex, it makes the job:
const regex = /,(?![^(]*\))/g;
const str = '"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)';
const result = str.split(regex);
console.log(result);
Javascript
var str='"abc",ab(),c(d(),e()),f(g(),zyx),h(123)'
str.split('"').toString().split(',').filter(Boolean);
this should work
I have a tokenised string like so;
var route = a/b/{firstId}/c/d/{nextId}
and I am wondering if it is possible with regex to get the value of "firstId" via a second string with tokens already replaced.
Example, if I have a given string;
var partPath = a/b/33
I can do something like;
function getValueFromPath(path, route){
//regex stuff
return tokenValue; //Expected result 33
}
getValueFromPath(partPath, route);
Thank you,
C.
A regex solution would be overly complicated (if you didn't define the route with a regexp right away). I'd just use
function getValueFromPath(path, route){
var actualParts = path.split("/"),
expectedParts = route.split("/"),
result = {};
for (var i=0; i<expectedParts.length; i++) {
if (i >= actualParts.length)
return result;
var actual = actualParts[i],
expected = expectedParts[i];
if (/^\{.+\}$/.test(expected))
result[ expected.slice(1, -1) ] = actual;
else if (actual != expected)
// non-matching literals found, abort
return result;
}
return result;
}
> getValueFromPath("a/b/33", "a/b/{firstId}/c/d/{nextId}")
{firstId: "33"}
> getValueFromPath("a/b/33/c/d/42/x", "a/b/{firstId}/c/d/{nextId}")
{firstId: "33", nextId: "42"}
Here's the same thing with "regex stuff" (notice that regex special characters in the route are not escaped, you have to take care about that yourself):
function getValueFromPath(path, route){
var keys = [];
route = "^"+route.split("/").reduceRight(function(m, part) {
return part + "(?:/" + m + ")?"; // make right parts optional
}).replace(/\{([^\/{}]+)\}/g, function(m, k) {
keys.push(k); // for every "variable"
return "([^/]+)"; // create a capturing group
});
var regex = new RegExp(route); // build an ugly regex:
// regex == /^a(?:\/b(?:\/([^/]+)(?:\/c(?:\/d(?:\/([^/]+))?)?)?)?)?/
var m = path.match(regex),
result = {};
for (var i=0; m && i<keys.length; i++)
result[keys[i]] = m[i+1];
return result;
}
You can create a regexp like this:
function getValueFromPath(path, route){
tokenValue = path.match(route)[1];
return tokenValue; //Expected result 33
}
var route = /\/a\/b\/([^\/]+)(\/c\/d\/([^\/]+))?/;
var partPath = '/a/b/33';
getValueFromPath(partPath, route); // == 33
http://jsfiddle.net/firstclown/YYvvn/2/
This will let you extract the first value at the first match with [1] and you can get the nextId by changing that to [3] (since [2] will give you the whole path after the 33).
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I need to parse the query string www.mysite.com/default.aspx?dest=aboutus.aspx.
How do I get the dest variable in JavaScript?
Here is a fast and easy way of parsing query strings in JavaScript:
function getQueryVariable(variable) {
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var vars = query.split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split('=');
if (decodeURIComponent(pair[0]) == variable) {
return decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
}
}
console.log('Query variable %s not found', variable);
}
Now make a request to page.html?x=Hello:
console.log(getQueryVariable('x'));
function parseQuery(queryString) {
var query = {};
var pairs = (queryString[0] === '?' ? queryString.substr(1) : queryString).split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++) {
var pair = pairs[i].split('=');
query[decodeURIComponent(pair[0])] = decodeURIComponent(pair[1] || '');
}
return query;
}
Turns query string like hello=1&another=2 into object {hello: 1, another: 2}. From there, it's easy to extract the variable you need.
That said, it does not deal with array cases such as "hello=1&hello=2&hello=3". To work with this, you must check whether a property of the object you make exists before adding to it, and turn the value of it into an array, pushing any additional bits.
You can also use the excellent URI.js library by Rodney Rehm. Here's how:-
var qs = URI('www.mysite.com/default.aspx?dest=aboutus.aspx').query(true); // == { dest : 'aboutus.aspx' }
alert(qs.dest); // == aboutus.aspx
And to parse the query string of current page:-
var $_GET = URI(document.URL).query(true); // ala PHP
alert($_GET['dest']); // == aboutus.aspx
Me too! http://jsfiddle.net/drzaus/8EE8k/
(Note: without fancy nested or duplicate checking)
deparam = (function(d,x,params,p,i,j) {
return function (qs) {
// start bucket; can't cheat by setting it in scope declaration or it overwrites
params = {};
// remove preceding non-querystring, correct spaces, and split
qs = qs.substring(qs.indexOf('?')+1).replace(x,' ').split('&');
// march and parse
for (i = qs.length; i > 0;) {
p = qs[--i];
// allow equals in value
j = p.indexOf('=');
// what if no val?
if(j === -1) params[d(p)] = undefined;
else params[d(p.substring(0,j))] = d(p.substring(j+1));
}
return params;
};//-- fn deparam
})(decodeURIComponent, /\+/g);
And tests:
var tests = {};
tests["simple params"] = "ID=2&first=1&second=b";
tests["full url"] = "http://blah.com/?third=c&fourth=d&fifth=e";
tests['just ?'] = '?animal=bear&fruit=apple&building=Empire State Building&spaces=these+are+pluses';
tests['with equals'] = 'foo=bar&baz=quux&equals=with=extra=equals&grault=garply';
tests['no value'] = 'foo=bar&baz=&qux=quux';
tests['value omit'] = 'foo=bar&baz&qux=quux';
var $output = document.getElementById('output');
function output(msg) {
msg = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0).join("\n");
if($output) $output.innerHTML += "\n" + msg + "\n";
else console.log(msg);
}
var results = {}; // save results, so we can confirm we're not incorrectly referencing
$.each(tests, function(msg, test) {
var q = deparam(test);
results[msg] = q;
output(msg, test, JSON.stringify(q), $.param(q));
output('-------------------');
});
output('=== confirming results non-overwrite ===');
$.each(results, function(msg, result) {
output(msg, JSON.stringify(result));
output('-------------------');
});
Results in:
simple params
ID=2&first=1&second=b
{"second":"b","first":"1","ID":"2"}
second=b&first=1&ID=2
-------------------
full url
http://blah.com/?third=c&fourth=d&fifth=e
{"fifth":"e","fourth":"d","third":"c"}
fifth=e&fourth=d&third=c
-------------------
just ?
?animal=bear&fruit=apple&building=Empire State Building&spaces=these+are+pluses
{"spaces":"these are pluses","building":"Empire State Building","fruit":"apple","animal":"bear"}
spaces=these%20are%20pluses&building=Empire%20State%20Building&fruit=apple&animal=bear
-------------------
with equals
foo=bar&baz=quux&equals=with=extra=equals&grault=garply
{"grault":"garply","equals":"with=extra=equals","baz":"quux","foo":"bar"}
grault=garply&equals=with%3Dextra%3Dequals&baz=quux&foo=bar
-------------------
no value
foo=bar&baz=&qux=quux
{"qux":"quux","baz":"","foo":"bar"}
qux=quux&baz=&foo=bar
-------------------
value omit
foo=bar&baz&qux=quux
{"qux":"quux","foo":"bar"} <-- it's there, i swear!
qux=quux&baz=&foo=bar <-- ...see, jQuery found it
-------------------
Here's my version based loosely on Braceyard's version above but parsing into a 'dictionary' and support for search args without '='. In use it in my JQuery $(document).ready() function. The arguments are stored as key/value pairs in argsParsed, which you might want to save somewhere...
'use strict';
function parseQuery(search) {
var args = search.substring(1).split('&');
var argsParsed = {};
var i, arg, kvp, key, value;
for (i=0; i < args.length; i++) {
arg = args[i];
if (-1 === arg.indexOf('=')) {
argsParsed[decodeURIComponent(arg).trim()] = true;
}
else {
kvp = arg.split('=');
key = decodeURIComponent(kvp[0]).trim();
value = decodeURIComponent(kvp[1]).trim();
argsParsed[key] = value;
}
}
return argsParsed;
}
parseQuery(document.location.search);
Following on from my comment to the answer #bobby posted, here is the code I would use:
function parseQuery(str)
{
if(typeof str != "string" || str.length == 0) return {};
var s = str.split("&");
var s_length = s.length;
var bit, query = {}, first, second;
for(var i = 0; i < s_length; i++)
{
bit = s[i].split("=");
first = decodeURIComponent(bit[0]);
if(first.length == 0) continue;
second = decodeURIComponent(bit[1]);
if(typeof query[first] == "undefined") query[first] = second;
else if(query[first] instanceof Array) query[first].push(second);
else query[first] = [query[first], second];
}
return query;
}
This code takes in the querystring provided (as 'str') and returns an object. The string is split on all occurances of &, resulting in an array. the array is then travsersed and each item in it is split by "=". This results in sub arrays wherein the 0th element is the parameter and the 1st element is the value (or undefined if no = sign). These are mapped to object properties, so for example the string "hello=1&another=2&something" is turned into:
{
hello: "1",
another: "2",
something: undefined
}
In addition, this code notices repeating reoccurances such as "hello=1&hello=2" and converts the result into an array, eg:
{
hello: ["1", "2"]
}
You'll also notice it deals with cases in whih the = sign is not used. It also ignores if there is an equal sign straight after an & symbol.
A bit overkill for the original question, but a reusable solution if you ever need to work with querystrings in javascript :)
If you know that you will only have that one querystring variable you can simply do:
var dest = location.search.replace(/^.*?\=/, '');
The following function will parse the search string with a regular expression, cache the result and return the value of the requested variable:
window.getSearch = function(variable) {
var parsedSearch;
parsedSearch = window.parsedSearch || (function() {
var match, re, ret;
re = /\??(.*?)=([^\&]*)&?/gi;
ret = {};
while (match = re.exec(document.location.search)) {
ret[match[1]] = match[2];
}
return window.parsedSearch = ret;
})();
return parsedSearch[variable];
};
You can either call it once without any parameters and work with the window.parsedSearch object, or call getSearch subsequently.
I haven't fully tested this, the regular expression might still need some tweaking...
How about this?
function getQueryVar(varName){
// Grab and unescape the query string - appending an '&' keeps the RegExp simple
// for the sake of this example.
var queryStr = unescape(window.location.search) + '&';
// Dynamic replacement RegExp
var regex = new RegExp('.*?[&\\?]' + varName + '=(.*?)&.*');
// Apply RegExp to the query string
var val = queryStr.replace(regex, "$1");
// If the string is the same, we didn't find a match - return false
return val == queryStr ? false : val;
}
..then just call it with:
alert('Var "dest" = ' + getQueryVar('dest'));
Cheers
I wanted a simple function that took a URL as an input and returned a map of the query params.
If I were to improve this function, I would support the standard for array data in the URL, and or nested variables.
This should work back and for with the jQuery.param( qparams ) function.
function getQueryParams(url){
var qparams = {},
parts = (url||'').split('?'),
qparts, qpart,
i=0;
if(parts.length <= 1 ){
return qparams;
}else{
qparts = parts[1].split('&');
for(i in qparts){
qpart = qparts[i].split('=');
qparams[decodeURIComponent(qpart[0])] =
decodeURIComponent(qpart[1] || '');
}
}
return qparams;
};
I wanted to pick up specific links within a DOM element on a page, send those users to a redirect page on a timer and then pass them onto the original clicked URL. This is how I did it using regular javascript incorporating one of the methods above.
Page with links: Head
function replaceLinks() {
var content = document.getElementById('mainContent');
var nodes = content.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i = 0; i < document.getElementsByTagName('a').length; i++) {
{
href = nodes[i].href;
if (href.indexOf("thisurl.com") != -1) {
nodes[i].href="http://www.thisurl.com/redirect.aspx" + "?url=" + nodes[i];
nodes[i].target="_blank";
}
}
}
}
Body
<body onload="replaceLinks()">
Redirect page
Head
function getQueryVariable(variable) {
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var vars = query.split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split('=');
if (decodeURIComponent(pair[0]) == variable) {
return decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
}
}
console.log('Query variable %s not found', variable);
}
function delayer(){
window.location = getQueryVariable('url')
}
Body
<body onload="setTimeout('delayer()', 1000)">