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Rvervuurt
Rvervuurt

Reputation: 8963

Grab Youtube video-ID from XML element

I'm coding an app in Phonegap and I'm trying to extract the video-ID from an XML file.

This is part of the XML containing the iFrame

<lees-verder>
<![CDATA[
<p><iframe width="720" height="396" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/53_qvMQfvOE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
]]>
</lees-verder>

This is the Jquery I use to parse "lees-verder".

var long = myObj.find('lees-verder').text();

My question is: How do I write the Jquery action more specific, so it splits the element and gives me the 11-character-long video-ID? I started with this, but I don't know if I'm going the right direction

var ytube = long.substring(long.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

AKX
AKX

Reputation: 168957

Use a regular expression once you have the text in the variable long:

var ytube = null;
var match = /embed\/([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/.exec(long);
if(match) ytube = match[1]; // Found it!

Upvotes: 1

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