Split method/function/process?

**bluewalrus** · 09-16-2009, 08:32 PM

I'm trying to split a string up but am failing. The string glatlng2 contains "(22.2342, -123.23423)". I tried changing the name to a simple string and it produced the same error message which was "TypeError: glatlng2.split is not a function". The value of glatlng2 will always be changing but will always be in the same format (any number of numbers, any number of numbers), so I thought this would give me the 2 sets of numbers in 2 variables. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Code:

var mySplitResult = glatlng2.split("(");
			var mySplitResult2 = mySplitResult[0];
			var mySplitResult3 = mySplitResult2.split(",");
			var lat2avg = mySplitResult3[0];
			var mySplitResult4 = mySplitResult3[1];
			var mySplitResult5 = mySplitResult4.split(")");
			var lng2avg = mySplitResult5[0];

**MJH** · 09-16-2009, 10:47 PM

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>None</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">	

	var glatlng2 = "(22.2342, -123.23423)";

	function init(){

		var latLongAvgs = glatlng2;
		latLongAvgs = latLongAvgs.replace(/[()]/g, "").split(",");
		var lat2avg = latLongAvgs[0];
		alert(lat2avg);
		var lng2avg = latLongAvgs[1];
		alert(lng2avg);		
	}

	navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" ? attachEvent('onload', init, false) : addEventListener('load', init, false);	

</script>
</head>
	<body>
		<form action="" method="post">
		  
			
		</form>
	</body>
</html>

**bluewalrus** · 09-17-2009, 01:20 AM

Could you explain the difference in statements? I understand the replace function but I'm missing why you have to declare a string to a string "var latLongAvgs = glatlng2;" and do splits have to be in their own function? I haven't had a chance yet to test this, switching over database, but thanks for the code thus far.

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