Question

I have this date/2 word parsed from the database randomly:

JAN 2012
FEB 2013
MAR 2014 

etc.

I want to make the month in variable a and the year in variable b.
The date is parsed in a span as such:

<span class="rt_item">DEC 2012</span>

Answer 1

You can use regex for this:

var regex = /([A-Z]{3}) ([0-9]{4})/;
var matches = "JAN 2012".match(regex);
var a = matches[1];
var b = matches[2];

Otherwise, use .split(" "):

var matches = "JAN 2012".split(" ");
var a = matches[0];
var b = matches[1];

Both methods demonstrated in this fiddle.