CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascriptregexstring
user317005
user317005

Reputation:

How do I split this string with JavaScript?

Javascript:

var string = '(37.961523, -79.40918)';

//remove brackets: replace or regex? + remove whitespaces

array = string.split(',');

var split_1 = array[0];

var split_2 = array[1];

Output:

var split_1 = '37.961523';

var split_2 = '-79.40918';

Should I just use string.replace('(', '').replace(')', '').replace(/\s/g, ''); or RegEx?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 169

Answers (4)

Felix Kling
Felix Kling

Reputation: 816452

Here is another approach:

If the () were [] you would have valid JSON. So what you could do is either change the code that is generating the coordinates to produce [] instead of (), or replace them with:

str = str.replace('(', '[').replace(')', ']')

Then you can use JSON.parse (also available as external library) to create an array containing these coordinates, already parsed as numbers:

var coordinates = JSON.parse(str);

Upvotes: 0

Dominic Barnes
Dominic Barnes

Reputation: 28429

You would probably like to use regular expressions in a case like this:

str.match(/-?\d+(\.\d+)?/g); // [ '37.961523', '-79.40918' ]

EDIT Fixed to address issue pointed out in comment below

Upvotes: 1

gen_Eric
gen_Eric

Reputation: 227260

You can use a regex to extract both numbers at once.

var string = '(37.961523, -79.40918)';
var matches = string.match(/-?\d*\.\d*/g);

Upvotes: 1

Andy E
Andy E

Reputation: 344575

Use

string.slice(1, -1).split(", ");

Upvotes: 8

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