Question

// mystring contains dynamic text. Sometimes can be
// null
var a = mystring.split(" ");
var proc = a[0] + " " + a[1];

If a does not contain text, after split proc is undefined. If I try to assing its value to a textbox the result is “undefined”:

mytextbox.val(proc);

So I need a way to make that proc has always a value, at least an empty string.

Answer 1

You can just use

(mystring || " ")

which will evaluate to mystring if it is not null, or " " if it is.

Or, you can just put an if statement around the whole thing:

if (mystring != null) {
    // stuff
} else {
    var proc = "";
}