regular expression or the split method?

Hi,

The reference-number of products is always product.number, f.e. suncream.1234

I would like to split every reference-number e.g. the part before the point and the part after.

What do you recommand to use? regular expressions or the split methode?

Thanks for Your time,
Jerome

regular expressions or the split methode?

the latter should be sufficient:

alert("product:\t"+initialString.split(".")[0]);
alert("number:\t"+initialString.split(".")[1]);

:thumbsup:

Thanks for Your time and opinion!

Of course if you wanted to use a regular expression, this would work nicely:


var str = "suncream.1234";
if( /([a-z_]*).([\d]*)/i.test(str) ) {
var strProductName = RegExp.$1;
var intProductNumber = RegExp.$2;
}


however, it is much of a muchness and jbot has already answered your question, i just like regular expressions ;)

m_n

i just like regular expressions

they certainly have their place, just as nutcrackers and sledgehammers have their's too. just use them wisely, and appropriately.

very true indeed mate ;)