JavaScript Regex: How to split Regex subexpression matches in to multi-dimensional string arrays?

Question

How would you split Regex subexpression matches in to multi-dimensional string arrays?

I have a \"myvar\" string of:

1-4:2;5-9:1.89;10

Answer 1

You didn't say what the exact output you expect, but I imagine something like this output may be intuitive.

Given:

var myvar = "1-4:2;5-9:1.89;10-24:1.79;25-99:1.69;100-149:1.59;150-199:1.49;200-249:1.39;250+:1.29";

A quick way to capture all sub-matches is:

var matches = [];
myvar.replace(/(\d+)[-+](\d*):(\d+\.?\d*);?/g, function(m, a, b, c) {
    matches.push([a, b, c])
});

(Note: you can capture the same output with a [potentially more readable] loop):

var myreg = /(\d+)[-+](\d*):(\d+\.?\d*);?/g;
var matches = [];
while(myreg.exec(myvar)) {
    matches.push([RegExp.$1, RegExp.$2, RegExp.$3])
}

Either way, the outcome is an array of matches:

matches[0]; // ["1", "4", "2"]
matches[1]; // ["5", "9", "1.89"]
matches[2]; // ["10", "24", "1.79"]
matches[3]; // ["25", "99", "1.69"]
matches[4]; // ["100", "149", "1.59"]
matches[5]; // ["150", "199", "1.49"]
matches[6]; // ["200", "249", "1.39"]
matches[7]; // ["250", "", "1.29"]

Answer 2

var r = /(\d+)[-+](\d*):(\d+\.?\d*);?/g;
var s = "1-4:2;5-9:1.89;10-24:1.79;25-99:1.69;100-149:1.59;150-199:1.49;200-249:1.39;250+:1.29";
var match;
while ((match = r.exec(s)) != null) {
  console.log("From " + match[1] + " to " + match[2] + " is " + match[3]);
}

The console.log() call is a Firefox/Firebug call. You can of course use alert(), document.write() or whatever else suits.

See RegExp object reference, in particular the RegExp methods, most notably RegExp.exec().

Answer 3

The simpliest way to do it - using split method of String:

var myvar = "1-4:2;5-9:1.89;10-24:1.79;25-99:1.69;100-149:1.59;150-199:1.49;200-249:1.39;250+:1.29";
myvar.split(';');

that produced:

["1-4:2", "5-9:1.89", "10-24:1.79", "25-99:1.69", "100-149:1.59", "150-199:1.49", "200-249:1.39", "250+:1.29"]