I have a String variable that stores the literal text of a JavaScript object:
String jsString = "mainData = {"name":"John", "id":"12345"}"
Is there a JSON method (or any method) in Java that will remove the "mainData = " part of the string in order to leave only the JavaScript data? Something like this:
newString = someMethod(jsString);
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(newString); //newString = "{"name":"John", "id":"12345"}"
There's String#replaceFirst:
jsString = jsString.replaceFirst("^[^{]+", "");
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That will remove any characters as the start of the string prior to the first {. It makes the assumption that the string contains JSON where the outermost thing is an object (as opposed to an array or just a value), although it could readily be tweaked not to make that assumption. For instance, this version:
jsString = jsString.replaceFirst("^\\s*[A-Za-z0-9_$]+\\s*=\\s*", "");
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That removes a series of letters, numbers, _, or $, optionally surrounded by whitespace, and a following =, possibly followed by whitespace, at the beginning of the string. Now, that's not a complete list of valid JavaScript identifier characters (that list is long), but you get the idea.
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I'm doing a small javascript method, which receive a list of point, and I've to read those points to create a Polygon in a google map.
I receive those point on the form:
(lat, long), (lat, long),(lat, long)
So I've done the following regex:
\(\s*([0-9.-]+)\s*,\s([0-9.-]+)\s*\)
I've tested it with RegexPal and the exact data I receive:
(25.774252, -80.190262),(18.466465, -66.118292),(32.321384, -64.75737),(25.774252, -80.190262)
and it works, so why when I've this code in my javascript, I receive null in the result?
var polygons="(25.774252, -80.190262),(18.466465, -66.118292),(32.321384, -64.75737),(25.774252, -80.190262)";
var reg = new RegExp("/\(\s*([0-9.-]+)\s*,\s([0-9.-]+)\s*\)/g");
var result = polygons.match(reg);
I've no javascript error when executing(with debug mode of google chrome). This code is hosted in a javascript function which is in a included JS file. This method is called in the OnLoad method.
I've searched a lot, but I can't find why this isn't working. Thank you very much!
Use a regex literal [MDN]:
var reg = /\(\s*([0-9.-]+)\s*,\s([0-9.-]+)\s*\)/g;
You are making two errors when you use RegExp [MDN]:
The "delimiters" / are should not be part of the expression
If you define an expression as string, you have to escape the backslash, because it is the escape character in strings
Furthermore, modifiers are passed as second argument to the function.
So if you wanted to use RegExp (which you don't have to in this case), the equivalent would be:
var reg = new RegExp("\\(\\s*([0-9.-]+)\\s*,\\s([0-9.-]+)\\s*\\)", "g");
(and I think now you see why regex literals are more convenient)
I always find it helpful to copy and past a RegExp expression in the console and see its output. Taking your original expression, we get:
/(s*([0-9.-]+)s*,s([0-9.-]+)s*)/g
which means that the expressions tries to match /, s and g literally and the parens () are still treated as special characters.
Update: .match() returns an array:
["(25.774252, -80.190262)", "(18.466465, -66.118292)", ... ]
which does not seem to be very useful.
You have to use .exec() [MDN] to extract the numbers:
["(25.774252, -80.190262)", "25.774252", "-80.190262"]
This has to be called repeatedly until the whole strings was processed.
Example:
var reg = /\(\s*([0-9.-]+)\s*,\s([0-9.-]+)\s*\)/g;
var result, points = [];
while((result = reg.exec(polygons)) !== null) {
points.push([+result[1], +result[2]]);
}
This creates an array of arrays and the unary plus (+) will convert the strings into numbers:
[
[25.774252, -80.190262],
[18.466465, -66.118292],
...
]
Of course if you want the values as strings and not as numbers, you can just omit the +.
I have a following string:
Text
I want to extract from this string, with the use of JavaScript 'pl' or 'pl_company_com'
There are a few variables:
jan_kowalski is a name and surname it can change, and sometimes even have 3 elements
the country code (in this example 'pl') will change to other en / de / fr (this is that part of the string i want to get)
the rest of the string remains the same for every case (beginning + everything after starting with _company_com ...
Ps. I tried to do it with split, but my knowledge of JS is very basic and I cant get what i want, plase help
An alternative to Randy Casburn's solution using regex
let out = new URL('https://my.domain.com/personal/jan_kowalski_pl_company_com/Documents/Forms/All.aspx').href.match('.*_(.*_company_com)')[1];
console.log(out);
Or if you want to just get that string with those country codes you specified
let out = new URL('https://my.domain.com/personal/jan_kowalski_pl_company_com/Documents/Forms/All.aspx').href.match('.*_((en|de|fr|pl)_company_com)')[1];
console.log(out);
let out = new URL('https://my.domain.com/personal/jan_kowalski_pl_company_com/Documents/Forms/All.aspx').href.match('.*_((en|de|fr|pl)_company_com)')[1];
console.log(out);
A proof of concept that this solution also works for other combinations
let urls = [
new URL('https://my.domain.com/personal/jan_kowalski_pl_company_com/Documents/Forms/All.aspx'),
new URL('https://my.domain.com/personal/firstname_middlename_lastname_pl_company_com/Documents/Forms/All.aspx')
]
urls.forEach(url => console.log(url.href.match('.*_(en|de|fr|pl).*')[1]))
I have been very successful before with this kind of problems with regular expressions:
var string = 'Text';
var regExp = /([\w]{2})_company_com/;
find = string.match(regExp);
console.log(find); // array with found matches
console.log(find[1]); // first group of regexp = country code
First you got your given string. Second you have a regular expression, which is marked with two slashes at the beginning and at the end. A regular expression is mostly used for string searches (you can even replace complicated text in all major editors with it, which can be VERY useful).
In this case here it matches exactly two word characters [\w]{2} followed directly by _company_com (\w indicates a word character, the [] group all wanted character types, here only word characters, and the {}indicate the number of characters to be found). Now to find the wanted part string.match(regExp) has to be called to get all captured findings. It returns an array with the whole captured string followed by all capture groups within the regExp (which are denoted by ()). So in this case you get the country code with find[1], which is the first and only capture group of the regular expression.
I need a certain type of regular expression where I need list of special type of strings from a string. Example input:
str = 'this is extra data which i do not need /type/123456/weqweqweqweqw/ these are more extra data which i dont need /'
Result needed:
/type/123456/weqweqweqweqw/
Here the /type/ string will be constant and the remaining will be dynamic i.e. 123456/weqweqweqweqw and the last string will be /.
I tried:
var myRe = /\/type\/(.*)\//g
But this matches everything from /type/ to the end of the string.
Instead of repeating ., which will match anything, repeat anything but a space via \S+, so that only the URL part of the string will be matched:
const str = 'this is extra data which i do not need /type/123456/weqweqweqweqw/ these are more extra data which i dont need /';
console.log(str.match(/\/type\S+/));
It's tagged Python, so here is a solution:
import re
re.search(r"/type/[^/]*/[^/]*/",str)
Out: <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(39, 66), match='/type/123456/weqweqweqweqw/'>
I have a string after Json.stringify in javascript using node. I wanted to replace the text in the string which starts with 'ab' then followed by some numbers(atleast one digit), with 'ab^^^^^^' where the number of '^' s should be equal to the number of digits after ab. The text starting with ab can occur atleast once, In this example it occurs twice. I need help in regex and replacing the string
string - in this, text starting with ab occurs twice.
var str = JSON.stringify({"abc":{"idcardno":"ertyuiop","form":{"somestring":"This string:\n- can have multiple \nab12345ab5677\n","flag":"true","flag2":"false"},"anothertext":"samplestring","numbetstr":"7"}});
after the regex replace it should be like this
{"abc":{"idcardno":"ertyuiop","form":{"somestring":"This string:\n- can have multiple \na^^^^^ab^^^^\n","flag":"true","flag2":"false"},"anothertext":"samplestring","numbetstr":"7"}}
Edit
As per the post below the below will be the contents of obj.abc.form.string, coming in multiple lines. How do I do the regex(above mentioned) replace of this object?
This string:
- can have multiple
ab12345ab56778
Don't process stringifed JSON with regexp. Process the JavaScript object itself, then stringify. In your case, assuming obj is the input:
obj.abc.form.somestring = transform(obj.abc.form.somestring);
str = JSON.stringify(obj);
where transform is a regexp/replace making the transformation you want.
#torazaburo is right, it's a bad practice to manipulate JSON directly. Once you get ahold of the string in obj.abc.form.somestring, though, you can use replace, passing a function:
str.replace(/ab\d+/g, function(match) {return match.replace(/\d/g,'^')})
I'm trying to do something which seems fairly basic, but can't seem to get it working.
I'm trying to strip the characters after the last instance of an underscore.
I have this long Query String:
json_data=demo_title=Demo+title&proc1_script=script.sh+parameters&proc1_chk_make=on&outputp2_value=&demo_input_description=hola+mundo&outputp4_visible=on&outputp4_info=&inputdata1_max_pixels=1024000&tag=&outputp1_id=nanana&proc1_src_compresion=zip&proc1_chk_cmake=off&outputp3_description=&outputp3_value=&inputdata1_description=input+data+description&inputp2_description=bien%3F&inputp3_description=funciona&proc1_cmake=-D+CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%3Astring%3DRelease+&outputp2_visible=on&outputp3_visible=on&outputp1_type=header&inputp1_type=text&demo_params_description=va+bien&outputp1_description=&inputdata1_type=image2d&proc1_chk_script=off&demo_result_description=win%3F&outputp2_id=nanfdsvfa&inputp1_description=funciona&demo_wait_description=boh&outputp4_description=&inputp2_type=integer&inputp2_id=papapa&outputp1_value=&outputp3_id=nananartrtrt&inputp3_id=pepepe&outputp3_type=header&inputp3_visible=+off&outputp1_visible=on&inputdata1_id=id_lsd&outputp4_value=&inputp2_visible=on&proc1_source=lsd-1.5.zip&inputp3_value=si&proc1_make=-j4+-C+&images_config_file=cfgmydemo.cfg&outputp2_type=header&proc1_subdir=xxx-1.5&proc1_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipol.im%2Fpub%2Falgo%2F...&inputdata1_image_depth=1x8i&inputp1_id=popopo&inputp1_value=si&inputp2_value=no&demo_data_filename=data_saved.cfg&inputdata1_info=info_lsd&outputp3_info=&inputdata1_image_format=.pgm&outputp1_info=&inputdata1_compress=False&inputp1_visible=on&proc1_id=lsd&outputp4_id=nana&outputp2_description=&outputp4_type=header&outputp2_info=&inputp3_type=float&&tag&inputp4_iddcksmdclk&inputp4_typetext&inputp4_descriptionkldmsclk&inputp4_valueklcdmkl&inputp4_infoclkdmscdl
Now I replace the separator = in separator %24+ and & in +%23+ using fr=fr.replace(/\&/g,"+%23+");
Separator
javascript Mako
= %24+
& +%23+
But the result is:
json_data%24+demo_title%24+Demo+title+%23+proc1_script%24+script.sh+parameters+%23+proc1_chk_make%24+on+%23+outputp2_value%24++%23+demo_input_description%24+hola+mundo+%23+outputp4_visible%24+on+%23+outputp4_info%24++%23+inputdata1_max_pixels%24+1024000+%23+tag%24++%23+outputp1_id%24+nanana+%23+proc1_src_compresion%24+zip+%23+proc1_chk_cmake%24+off+%23+outputp3_description%24++%23+outputp3_value%24++%23+inputdata1_description%24+input+data+description+%23+inputp2_description%24+bien%3F+%23+inputp3_description%24+funciona+%23+proc1_cmake%24+-D+CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE%3Astring%3DRelease++%23+outputp2_visible%24+on+%23+outputp3_visible%24+on+%23+outputp1_type%24+header+%23+inputp1_type%24+text+%23+demo_params_description%24+va+bien+%23+outputp1_description%24++%23+inputdata1_type%24+image2d+%23+proc1_chk_script%24+off+%23+demo_result_description%24+win%3F+%23+outputp2_id%24+nanfdsvfa+%23+inputp1_description%24+funciona+%23+demo_wait_description%24+boh+%23+outputp4_description%24++%23+inputp2_type%24+integer+%23+inputp2_id%24+papapa+%23+outputp1_value%24++%23+outputp3_id%24+nananartrtrt+%23+inputp3_id%24+pepepe+%23+outputp3_type%24+header+%23+inputp3_visible%24++off+%23+outputp1_visible%24+on+%23+inputdata1_id%24+id_lsd+%23+outputp4_value%24++%23+inputp2_visible%24+on+%23+proc1_source%24+lsd-1.5.zip+%23+inputp3_value%24+si+%23+proc1_make%24+-j4+-C++%23+images_config_file%24+cfgmydemo.cfg+%23+outputp2_type%24+header+%23+proc1_subdir%24+xxx-1.5+%23+proc1_url%24+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipol.im%2Fpub%2Falgo%2F...+%23+inputdata1_image_depth%24+1x8i+%23+inputp1_id%24+popopo+%23+inputp1_value%24+si+%23+inputp2_value%24+no+%23+demo_data_filename%24+data_saved.cfg+%23+inputdata1_info%24+info_lsd+%23+outputp3_info%24++%23+inputdata1_image_format%24+.pgm+%23+outputp1_info%24++%23+inputdata1_compress%24+False+%23+inputp1_visible%24+on+%23+proc1_id%24+lsd+%23+outputp4_id%24+nana+%23+outputp2_description%24++%23+outputp4_type%24+header+%23+outputp2_info%24++%23+inputp3_type%24+float+%23++%23+tag+%23+inputp4_iddcksmdclk+%23+inputp4_typetext+%23+inputp4_descriptionkldmsclk+%23+inputp4_valueklcdmkl+%23+inputp4_infoclkdmscdl
Now I am interested how to replace this = after the value jsondata.
Explain:
In the Query string there is the string json_data+%23+ and this +%23+ I want replace to =
How?
Strip the characters after the last instance of an underscore:
json_data.substring(0, json_data.lastIndexOf("_"));
Replace +%23+ with =
json_data.replace("+%23+", "=");
However, if you're trying to turn all the %xx into what they're supposed to be, you should url decode the string instead.
Which would probably have to be something like:
decodeURIComponent((json_data).replace('+', '%20'));