Question

Alright, I’ve got a very unique API for a service I run, in which the return values are displayed similarly to JSON (but not JSON), and it works very well with most languages, but now I face a problem accessing the returned values using Javascript only.

I have a PHP page which takes GET parameters, and then displays output like this:
stapi=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0&stlinks=Hu3L|http://www.example.com,3Ozq|https://www.example.com

That is the only output of the webpage, and what I’d like to do is collect these two variables into a Javascript Array to be displayed as a list. (The second variable I typically collect into matched pairs as you can see the separation with the “|“)

Now I just need to know how to collect the “variables” from the output and put them into an array (these two pages are NOT going to be on the same server)
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**I want to put the stapi comma-separated values into its own array
and then the stlinks vertical-bar matched pairs/comma separated values into its own array

Answer 1

Try this function to split your string with this pipe:

function splitString(s,ch){
    var n = [];
    var i = 0, j = 0;
    while (i != -1){
        j = i;
        i = s.indexOf(ch,i+1);
        if (i > -1){
            if (j > 0){
                n.push( s.substr(j+ch.length,i-j-ch.length) );
            } else {
                n.push( s.substr(j,i-j) );
            }
        } else {
            n.push( s.substr(j+ch.length) );
        }
    }
    return n;
}

var result = [];

var pairs = splitString("stapi=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0&stlinks=Hu3L|http://www.example.com,3Ozq|https://www.example.com","|");

var i = 0;

for (i = 0; pairs.length < i; i++){
    var temp = splitString(pairs[i],'=');
    result.push({name: temp[0], value: temp[1]});
}

What You need is packed to result variable.