Question

I have an POST AJAX command that returns the following:

`email{[e-mail]} cid{215}`

What I want do is replace the email{} and the cid{} with using only the values as vars

var email = '[e-mail]'
var customer_id = 215;

They would appear like that. Is there a cleaner way than:

var result = "email{[e-mail]} cid{215}"; 

// change to        [e-mail] cid{215}
var replace1 = result.replace("email{");
var replace1a = replace1.replace("}");

// change to        [e-mail] 215
var replace2 = result.replace("cid{");
var replace2a = replace1.replace("}");

// now we have an email, with a space and a number
// [e-mail] 215 make before space string
// this would be email

// now make only the int a string called cid

Answer 1

First use a regular expression to extract desired data:

var response = "email{[e-mail]} cid{215}";
var regex = /email\{(.*)\} cid\{(.*)\}/;
var data = response.match(regex);

Now you can easily obtain values you want:

var email = data[1];
var customer_id = +data[2];