Need a javascript equilavent of vB Mid()

[Grayson Carlyle]

I know the start and endpoint of the characters I need to pull from myString, now I just need to pull them. Help? :)

[Jona]

...Eh? You mean get the first and last letters of a string?

[pyro]

I think you are looking for substr.... It is used like this:

myNewString = myString.substr(0,5);

That will take from position 0 to 5...

[Grayson Carlyle]

That's exactly it, thanks :)

[Jona]

:eek: Okay... :confused: Whatever....

[pyro]

No problem... ;)

Cheers!

[Jona]

So then, Dave, it would be myString.substr(4,5) right?

[pyro]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
Not quite... What are you talking about? :confused:

This:

myString = "testing";
myNewString = myString.substr(0,5);
alert (myNewString);

returns testi

[Jona]

Um.. forget the argument... I'm gonna go experience all this for myself. (I know I know what it does, I just want to experiment.)

[Grayson Carlyle]

I used indexOf to find 2 "constant" parts of a generated webpage. I then subtracted the second from the first to find the length of the area between them. I then used myString.value.substr(numstart, numlen) to get the string out that I wanted. My next step is to take this new string and remove the ","'s from it (since it's a number in the form of 2,546,700)

But you don't need to post the code for that, I can think that much through with the knowledge I have now :)

[Grayson Carlyle]

Heh, I'm not new to programming... just never used javascript before, so I'm learning by reading code. Predefined functions allude me until I see them used though

[pyro]

So, are you saying it is syntactially incorrect to do this

myNewString = myString.substr(0,5);
alert (myNewString);

or just that it doesn't take from position 0 to 5 but from position 0 to 5 more positions?

[Grayson Carlyle]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
To remove the commas from this:

var str = "2,546,700";

it's easier to do it this way:

str = str.split(",").join("");

Dave

You can do that???

haha, sweet!

Okay, thanks!

[pyro]

So what I originally stated was correct. It will take from position 0 to 5 (5 more than 0) Although, I do agree with you. substring was probably what he was looking for...

[pyro]

Ok, well... Thanks for straightening it out... ;)

Cheers!

[Nedals]

Originally posted by Dave Clark
To remove the commas from this:

var str = "2,546,700";

it's easier to do it this way:

str = str.split(",").join("");

You could also do it this way..

str = str.replace(/\,/g,"");