Javascript/Jquery Convert string to array

Question

i have a string

var traingIds = \"${triningIdArray}\";  // ${triningIdArray} this value getting from server 
alert(traingIds)  // alerts [1,2]
var type = typeof         


        

Answer 1

Change

var trainindIdArray = traingIds.split(',');

to

var trainindIdArray = traingIds.replace("[","").replace("]","").split(',');

That will basically remove [ and ] and then split the string

Answer 2

Since array literal notation is still valid JSON, you can use JSON.parse() to convert that string into an array, and from there, use it's values.

var test = "[1,2]";
parsedTest = JSON.parse(test); //an array [1,2]

//access like and array
console.log(parsedTest[0]); //1
console.log(parsedTest[1]); //2

Answer 3

check this out :)

var traingIds = "[1,2]";  // ${triningIdArray} this value getting from server 
alert(traingIds);  // alerts [1,2]
var type = typeof(traingIds);
alert(type);   // // alerts String

//remove square brackets
traingIds = traingIds.replace('[','');
traingIds = traingIds.replace(']','');
alert(traingIds);  // alerts 1,2        
var trainindIdArray = traingIds.split(',');

​for(i = 0; i< trainindIdArray.length; i++){
    alert(trainindIdArray[i]); //outputs individual numbers in array
    }​ 

Answer 4

Assuming, as seems to be the case, ${triningIdArray} is a server-side placeholder that is replaced with JS array-literal syntax, just lose the quotes. So:

var traingIds = ${triningIdArray};

not

var traingIds = "${triningIdArray}";