Question

Can anyone offer more help on this I have the code setup on jsfiddle at…

http://jsfiddle.net/justinerswell/feDTU/

I need to get the last item in the substr and work backwards to populate the fields I need.

Thanks

Original Question

Hi I have a list box returned on a page with multiple result which are being parsed in as a string into the value…

<option value="1 Corn Exchange, The Strand, RYE, East Sussex, TN31 7DB, UNITED KINGDOM">

Using JQuery I need to do a couple of things..

1. Get Selected Value
2. Split Value of Selected Item by Comma’s
3. Loop through in revers and set a variable for each item i.e country: United Kingdom Postcode:TN31 7DB etc

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Answer 1

Do you want to fetch the data on click or submit?

    $('select').click( function() {

        var selected = $(this).find(':selected').text();

        var substr = selected.split(',');
        var product = substr[0];
        var city = substr[1];
        var postcode = substr[2];
        var country = substr[3];

        //DO SOMETHING WITH IT??
    });

But its not a very good idea, considering your “data” structure can’t change (ie. missing fields and so on) – since it will break on the indexes….