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jQuerybeast
jQuerybeast

Reputation: 14490

Split two words into variables

I have this date/2 word parsed from the database randomly:

JAN 2012
FEB 2013
MAR 2014

etc.

I want to make the month in variable a and the year in variable b. The date is parsed in a span as such:

<span class="rt_item">DEC 2012</span>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1111

Answers (4)

VijayS91
VijayS91

Reputation: 1531

Try this code:

    var str="DEC 2012";
    var mon=str.substr(0,3);
    var year=str.substr(4,7);

Upvotes: 10

KooiInc
KooiInc

Reputation: 122906

You could create an array of objects containing a (month) and b (year) properties, derived from the span(s):

var md = [],
    rtitems = $('.rt_item');
for (var i=0;i<rtitems.length;i+1){
  var item = rtitems[i].text().split(' ');
  md.push ({a: item[0], b: item[1]});
}

for a set of spans like:

<span class="rt_item">DEC 2012</span>
<span class="rt_item">JAN 2012</span>
<span class="rt_item">FEB 2013</span>

md[0].a would be 'DEC', and md[0].b 2012

Upvotes: 4

Talha
Talha

Reputation: 19262

var mySplitResult = "MAR 2014".split(" ");
var x = mySplitResult[0];
var y = mySplitResult[1];

Upvotes: 6

Cat
Cat

Reputation: 67502

You can use regex for this:

var regex = /([A-Z]{3}) ([0-9]{4})/;
var matches = "JAN 2012".match(regex);
var a = matches[1];
var b = matches[2];

Otherwise, use .split(" "):

var matches = "JAN 2012".split(" ");
var a = matches[0];
var b = matches[1];

Both methods demonstrated in this fiddle.

Upvotes: 7

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