Handle multiple demiliter possibility of texterea

[jt107]

Have an issue handling people using texterea to submit multiple id strings, I have to handle that not make what the user enters as delimiter, I have to pass it to comma delimiter to the back end. Basically I need to treat, ;, newline, returns, space, white space, blank etc to comma. Just wondering if there is an expression I can use.


str = document.mform.txtInput.value

function handleInput(str)
{
//remove unwanted space,change all delimiler to comma


}

Please advice.

Thanks in advance.

[jt107]

got it. By using regular expression. return space as demiliter.

function handleInput(str){
return str.replace(/^\s+|\s+|\;+|\,+|\n+|\r$/g," ");
}

[JMRKER]

got it. By using regular expression. return space as demiliter.

function handleInput(str){
return str.replace(/^\s+|\s+|\;+|\,+|\n+|\r$/g," ");
}

What is the purpose of the FIRST and SECOND \s+ value in the expression?
Would only one work just as well?

[rnd me]

alert(

  "these;are,using different-delims".split(/[;,-_ ]/) +"" 

)