Question

I have this string: 'foo = bar; this = is; not = necessary'

I would like to get this result: {"name" : "foo", "value" : "bar"}

It is not necessary, what is after the ;

I know, I should use some regexp, but I don’t really understand how regexp works.

Thanks is advance,

Answer 1

You could use:

var values='foo = bar; this = is; not = necessary'.split('; ')[0].split(' = ');
var obj={"name" : values[0], "value" : values[1]}

This way you do:

1. 'foo = bar; this = is; not = necessary'.split('; '), which returns ['foo = bar','this = is','not = necessary']
2. You want just the first element, so 'foo = bar; this = is; not = necessary'.split(';')[0] gives 'foo = bar'
3. Then you split again: 'foo = bar; this = is; not = necessary'.split(';')[0].split(' = '), which gives ['foo','bar']
4. And finally you create the object