Question

i have a string which has the following format (3,1,Mayer,Jack). I need all 4 elements as own variables. I thought about using JavaScript’s match()-function to do this, but i don’t know how i can get the 4 elements in variables…

I tried it with this code:

var clickedId = '(3,1,Mayer,Jack)';
var pregId = clickedId.match(/([\d]+,[\d]+,[\w]+,[\w]+)/g);
alert(pregId[0]);

But i get a popup windows with “(3,1,Mayer,Jack)”… I thought about something like this:

var id = pregId[0];
var teamid = pregId[1];
var surname = pregId[2];
var name = pregId[3];

How can i do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The match function is matching the whole expression, not pulling out the parts of the whole. So you need to match on each individual element, say with a regex like (\d|\w)+. Here’s an example:

var clickedId = '(3,1,Mayer,Jack)';
var pregId = clickedId.match(/((\d|\w)+)/g);

var id = pregId[0];
var teamid = pregId[1];
var surname = pregId[2];
var name = pregId[3];

alert(surname);

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Znu7N/