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Snuglas
Snuglas

Reputation: 63

How to remove the brackets from this string?

I'm messing around with this open API that I found. I returns a random Ron Swanson quote each time you GET from it.

The problem is that each the response.data comes out like this:

[ "Fish, for sport only, not for meat. Fish meat is practically a vegetable." ]

with brackets surrounding the text - which I don't want. Ive tried using slice() to get rid of the brackets but it doesn't seem to work.

What very simple thing am I missing?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 252

Answers (3)

Abana Clara
Abana Clara

Reputation: 4650

You can try to use .split() if you're dealing with strings

var myVar = '["Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Osas"]';
myVar2 = myVar.split("[")[1];
myVar3 = myVar2.split("]")[0];

The final variable would hold "Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Osas".

The [] on the split method denotes the index of the divided string where "aXb" when split using split("X"), a is index 0, b is index 1.

Upvotes: 1

minorcaseDev
minorcaseDev

Reputation: 191

Just did a quick google search to find the API you are using -- https://github.com/jamesseanwright/ron-swanson-quotes is what it looks like.

Instead of returning a string with brackets, this API returns an array with a single value! So no need to perform any string manipulation, just access response.data[0] to get the string that you want.

Edit: Slice would have been the correct way to remove the brackets if they were a part of the response string. Good instinct!

Upvotes: 5

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234795

It's an array. Use subscripting notation to get the first element:

var response = [ "Fish, etc." ];
var text = response[0]; // "Fish, etc." (without the brackets)

Upvotes: 3

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