Question

I’m trying to find the “best” way to insert a break into a string of time so that it takes up two lines and always splits in the same place (e.g. Fri Nov 5 11:11 AM to Fri Nov 5 break 11:11 AM).

I do not want to change the width of the div that the string is inside of because an warning message will display there if no time is selected. I know I could split the string into spaces with .split() function and rebuild it into the string I want but I thought there must be a better way.

It would be nice to have a method to traverse (not necessarily divide) thought the string to find an element that occurs more than once. So you could do something like a vocabulary tool that changes the color of the next time(s) you used a word or something for fun like a ransom note generator, newspaper-clipping-like-letters, that uses different letter types for the same word.

For an example what I’m trying to fix is this but a generic solution would be nice.

Answer 1

var date = 'Fri Nov 5 11:11 AM'
date.replace(/(\w+ \w+ \d{1,2}) (\d{1,2}:\d{1,2} AM|PM)/, '$1 <br> $2')

This will split the string after 2 words and a 1 or 2-digit number, if those are followed by two 1 or 2-digit numbers separated by a colon followed by either AM or PM.