Thanks. I ended up doing this, which may not be as fast as yours:
theString.split('][').last().slice(0,-1);
Walter
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:28 PM, T.J. Crowder wrote:
Hi,
If I'm understanding you correctly, it would be a job for regular
expressions:
var match = /element\[[0-9]+\]\[([^\]]+)\]/.exec(element.name);
if (match) {
// Use match[1], which contains "Theme"
}
Live example: http://jsbin.com/ozoyi3/2
That allows extra stuff at both the beginning and the end of the name;
if you want to tighten it up, add ^ at the beginning and $ at the end:
http://jsbin.com/ozoyi3/3
The regex says: Look for 'element[' followed by one or more digits
followed by '][' followed by (and capturing) anything that isn't a
']', followed by a ']'. Captures are stored starting at index 1 in the
match result array, so if `match` doesn't come back `null`, we look in
`match[1]` for the value that was in the second set of `[]`s.
HTH,
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T.J. Crowder
Independent Software Engineer
tj / crowder software / com
www / crowder software / com
On Apr 8, 5:14 pm, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
If I have a string value like this as the name attribute of a form
element:
element[312][Theme]
How would I grab the value of that field while ignoring the numerical
index, and using the second index value (Theme) to clue in my
application about where to place the value? Would this be a job for
regular expressions, or is there some aspect of array notation that I
can exploit to do the same thing?
Walter
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