Question

In my Javascript code, I have a string that is something like this:

"1943[15]43[67]12[32]"

I want to return an array like this:

["1","9","4","3","15","4","3","67","1", 2","32"]

That is, I want it to separate every character, except the numbers inside the brackets, which I want to preserve as one element.

Is there an elegant way to do this?

Answer 1

var str = '1943[15]43[67]12[32]',
    matches = str.match(/\d|\[\d+\]/g);

for (var i = 0, matchesLength = matches.length; i < matchesLength; i++) {
    matches[i] = matches[i].replace(/\D/g, '');
};

console.log(matches);
// ["1", "9", "4", "3", "15", "4", "3", "67", "1", "2", "32"]

jsFiddle.