Question

I am getting driving distance from google map api v3 using this code.

distance11 = response.routes[0].legs[0].distance.text;

The code is working fine, but the output is coming in the format 300km. I need only the number 300. Please help me find a solution.

I already tried putting distance.value and simply distance but it didn’t work.

Edit:…..

Also please tell me how to remove string from a variable using javascript. For instance getting only 300 from 300km.

Thanks!

Answer 1

For this particular case, you can try

parseInt(distance11);

parseInt automatically removes the trailing string after the number. But if you know already that distance11 ends with "km", you can also do

distance11.slice(0, -2);