How to convert comma separated strings enclosed within bracket to array in Javascript?

Question

How to convert below string to array in Javascript? The reason is that I want to take both value separately. The string is value from an element, when I print it to console I got:('UYHN7687YTF09IIK762220G6','Second')

var data = elm.value;
console.log(data);

Answer 1

You can achieve this with regex , like this for example:

 const string = "('UYHN7687YTF09IIK762220G6','Second')"; const regex = /'(.*?)'/ig // Long way const array = []; let match; while (match = regex.exec(string)){ array.push(match[1]); }; console.log(array) // Fast way console.log([...string.matchAll(regex)].map(i => i[1]))

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Answer 2

let given_string = "('UYHN7687YTF09IIK762220G6','Second')";

// first remove the both ()
given_string = given_string.substring(1); // remove (
given_string = given_string.substring(0, given_string.length - 1); // remove )

let expected_array = given_string.split(',');
console.log(expected_array);