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Sagar Chaudhary
Sagar Chaudhary

Reputation: 1403

Parser for string

Suppose i have a string, 

 str = "Date()+Abs(9)Day()+45"

I want an array that contains:

arr[0]=Date()
arr[1]=Abs(9)
arr[2]=Day()

My current parser: 

var temp = str.match(/\w+(\w+)/)

Please help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Mr. Polywhirl
Mr. Polywhirl

Reputation: 48600

This is a pretty easy expression.

/          -- START expression
  \w+      -- One or more alpha-numeric (plus '_')
  \(       -- Literal opening parenthesis
  [\w/-]*  -- Zero or more alpha-numeric (plus '_', '/', and '-')
  \)       -- Literal closing parenthesis
/g         -- END expression; Global match


var str = "Date(20/04/98)+Abs(-9)Day(20/04/98)+45"
var arr = str.match(/\w+\([\w/-]*\)/g);

console.log(JSON.stringify(arr, null, 2));

// arr[0] = Date(20/04/98)
// arr[1] = Abs(-9)
// arr[2] = Day(20/04/98)

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Upvotes: 7

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