How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript? I'm trying to split on both commas and : colon but, js's split function only supports one separator.
Example :
materialA:125,materialB:150,materialC:175
I want to split both these values into array like
materiaA,materialB,materialC
and second
125,150,175
Or anybody can give me idea how could I multiply these numbers with a constant to get like
materialA:1250, materialB:1500,materialC:1750.
You can split with more than one seperator if you're using regex:
.split(/:|,/)
This would give
["materialA", "125", "materialB", "150", "materialC", "175"]
Changing the approach completely, if all you want to do is multiply all the numbers in your string by a fixed coefficient, you can use string.replace:
var string = "materialA:125,materialB:150,materialC:175";
var coef = 10;
var result = string.replace(/\d+/g, function(match){
return parseInt(match)*coef;
});
Then print(result) outputs the string
materialA:1250,materialB:1500,materialC:1750
\d is a shortcut for [0-9].
Example using @mitim's method:
var str = 'materialA:125,materialB:150,materialC:175',
multiplier = 2;
str = str.split(',').map(function (elem) {
var parts = elem.split(':');
parts[1] *= multiplier;
return parts.join(':');
}).join(',');
This will give you:
materialA:250,materialB:300,materialC:350
You could split the string by comma first, then loop through the resulting array. In that array, each entry would be something like "materialA:125". From there, you can split by the colon and append each part to its own list to work with or if you prefer, just multiply the second half (cast to int first) and rejoin it in to your original string.
Even though someone gave a much better answer, here's a bit of code that does what I mentioned above (since you asked)
var inputString = "materialA:125,materialB:150,materialC:175";
var mats = new Array();
var numbers = new Array();
var temp;
var elements = inputString.split(",");
for(var element in elements){
temp = elements[element].split(":");
mats.push(temp[0]);
numbers.push(parseInt(temp[1]));
}
console.log(mats); // prints ["materialA", "materialB", "materialC"]
console.log(numbers); // prints [125, 150, 175]
You could simply use following Regex:
/[:,]/
And following string method:
mystring = 'materialA:125,materialB:150,materialC:175';
result = mystring.split(/[:,]/);
Here is a Fiddle.
