How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character?

Question

I have this string

\'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345\'

Using JavaScript, what is the fastest way to parse this into

Answer 1

If Spliter is found then only

Split it

else return the same string

function SplitTheString(ResultStr) {
    if (ResultStr != null) {
        var SplitChars = '~';
        if (ResultStr.indexOf(SplitChars) >= 0) {
            var DtlStr = ResultStr.split(SplitChars);
            var name  = DtlStr[0];
            var street = DtlStr[1];
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Something like:

var divided = str.split("/~/");
var name=divided[0];
var street = divided[1];

Is probably going to be easiest

Answer 3

split() method in javascript is used to convert a string to an array. It takes one optional argument, as a character, on which to split. In your case (~).

If splitOn is skipped, it will simply put string as it is on 0th position of an array.

If splitOn is just a “”, then it will convert array of single characters.

So in your case

var arr = input.split('~');

you will get name at arr[0] and street at arr1.

You can read for more detail explanation at Split on in JavaScript

Answer 4

Use this code --

function myFunction() {
var str = "How are you doing today?";
var res = str.split("/");

}

Answer 5

This string.split("~")[0]; gets things done.

source: String.prototype.split()

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Another functional approach using curry and function composition.

So the first thing would be the split function. We want to make this "john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345" into this ["john smith", "123 Street", "Apt 4", "New York", "NY", "12345"]

const split = (separator) => (text) => text.split(separator);
const splitByTilde = split('~');

So now we can use our specialized splitByTilde function. Example:

splitByTilde("john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345") // ["john smith", "123 Street", "Apt 4", "New York", "NY", "12345"]

To get the first element we can use the list[0] operator. Let's build a first function:

const first = (list) => list[0];

The algorithm is: split by the colon and then get the first element of the given list. So we can compose those functions to build our final getName function. Building a compose function with reduce:

const compose = (...fns) => (value) => fns.reduceRight((acc, fn) => fn(acc), value);

And now using it to compose splitByTilde and first functions.

const getName = compose(first, splitByTilde);

let string = 'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345';
getName(string); // "john smith"