Question

I have the following string

"[01][23.81][New]"

I am trying to break up the string by retrieving the values between the brackets and placing them into an array so that it looks something like the following

array({
   "id"        : 01,
   "price"     : 23.81,
   "condition" : "New"
});

Here is what I have so far…

var arr = new Array();
$("input:checkbox.addItm:checked").each(function(){
    //str.split('[');
    arr.push({
       "id": $(this).val()
    });
});

I want to know what is the best way to split the string?

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression instead:

var m = "[01][23.81][New]".match(/\[([^\]]+)\]\[([^\]]+)\]\[([^\]]+)\]/);
arr.push({
  id: m[1], // 01
  price: m[2], // 23.81
  condition: m[3]  // New
});