Question

I am trying to incorporate a splice such that it tests for 2 things:

1. Characters cannot be longer than 20, removes the rest
2. It stops at the first non-alpha-numerical, removes the rest ?

How would I go about doing this ? i.e. for example

var string = 'Special Place Co. (123 ABC)'

So this would return

‘Special Place Co’ [found ‘.’ and removed spliced after]

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is a code that will work for you:

var string = 'Special Place Co. (123 ABC)';


if (string.length > 20) {
  string = string.substr(0,20);   
}

string = string.replace(/([a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)(.*)/,'{$1}');


console.log(string);

http://jsfiddle.net/U5ZtU/