Question

Extracting data from XML I want to preprocess one before sending it as a variable to template. A stackoverflow fellow pointed me to Ext.Xtemplate and that is close to do the job.

In each of my records I have a value “coordinates” of this pattern : 2.342556,48.873802,0.000000
3 items separated with comma. I need the first and the second.

So I decided to split but It doesn’t work.

My attempt so far (trying to display only one value for testing purposes)

Code:

var tpl = new Ext.XTemplate(        
        '<div>{name}<br>{[ values.coordinates.split(',')[1] ]}</div>'
             );

This echo nothing.
If I display the [0] column of the array it displays the whole string, unsplited. This means that it didn’t parse the comma.

If I split with something else it works (for example with an integer)

Code:

var tpl = new Ext.XTemplate(        
'<div>{name}<br>{[ values.coordinates.split(6)[1] ]}</div>'
         );

I tried to split with the point (‘.’) but it throw an error (“unexpected string”)

Maybe I should use a template member function but the example in the doc are not very clear for me.

Thanks for your help,

Julius

Answer 1

You need to escape the single quotes or use double quotes like so:

var tpl = new Ext.XTemplate(        
        '<div>{name}<br>{[ values.coordinates.split(\',\')[1] ]}</div>'
             );

Otherwise your call will be like this:

var tpl = new Ext.XTemplate(        
        '<div>{name}<br>{[ values.coordinates.split(',   ')[1] ]}</div>'
             );

I.E. you pass 2 string parameters instead of 1.

A similar problem would be with this:

alert( 'o' 'hi there' );

Except this would throw a syntax error because there is no coincidential comma in there.