Question

I have the following javascript string varaible:

var a = "1870|A00,1871|A01";

I want to separate the above string into the below strings:

var a1 = 1870,1871
var a2 = A00,A01

Any hints on this?

Answer 1

var a = "1870|A00,1871|A01";

var b = a.split(',');     // split on the commas
var a1 = [], a2 = [];     // temporary arrays

// foreach of the substrings
for (var i = 0; i < b.length; ++i) {
    var c = b[i].split('|');  // split on the pipe char
    a1.push(c[0]);            // and store the
    a2.push(c[1]);            // two elements
}

a1 = a1.join(',');        // and reconstruct the
a2 = a2.join(',');        // two strings