First of all, I tried to search it on SO but couldn't find a solution. I have a string
var str = 'a:5:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";i:2;s:1:"3";i:3;s:1:"4";i:4;s:1:"5";}';
I want to grab all numbers between " " as an array in javascript. I tried this suggested on one of the SO questions.
console.log(str.split(/[""]/));
but this outputs
["a:5{i:0;s:1:", "1", ";i:1;:", "2", ";i:2;s:1:", "7", ";i:3;s:1:", "4", ";i:4;s:1:", "5", ";}"]
which is not exact.
Actually that above string is an array of PHP stored in MemcacheD and I am retrieving it in Node.JS and that's why I can't use json_encode or so. I am not good at Regex. So Experts please show some shine on it.
The result of above string should be an array or string like this
str = "1,2,3,4,5";
or an array like
array = [1,2,3,4,5];
So, this is a PHP serialized string. There is a version of unserialize available for javascript in the php.js
project.
So using that function.
Javascript
var str = 'a:5:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";i:2;s:1:"3";i:3;s:1:"4";i:4;s:1:"5";}';
console.log(unserialize(str));
Output
["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"]
On jsFiddle
And if you are using nodejs then you could also consider a module like php-unserialize
str.match(/"\d+"/g).join().replace(/"/g,'')
// "1,2,3,4,5"
function match_all(str, re) {
var ret = [], v;
while(v = re.exec(str)) {
ret.push(v[1]);
}
return ret;
}
var str = 'a:5:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";i:2;s:1:"3";i:3;s:1:"4";i:4;s:1:"5";}';
var numbers = match_all(str, /"(\d+)"/g);
console.log(numbers);
//to convert the result to ints
console.log(numbers.map(function(v) { return +v; }));