Question

I have a string in the format of something like this: “7:18 am”

What I’d like to be able to do is extract the “718” (not the colon in between) and the “am” into two separate variables.

I tried doing something like this, but it only returned the first integer – in this case, the 7.

var time = parseInt("7:18")

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

var str = "7:18 am".split(" "),
    time = parseInt(str[0].replace(":", ""), 10),
    ampm = str[1];

console.log(time, ampm);  // 718 "am"