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Undefined in Split String

i have a function to split string into 2 part, front and back. Then reverse it to back and front. Here is my code
function reverseString(string) {
let splitString = ""
let firstString = ""
for(i = 0; i <= string.length/2 - 1; i++) {
firstString += string[i]
}
for(i = string.length/2; i <= string.length; i++) {
splitString += string[i]
}
return splitString + firstString
}
Sorry for bad explanation, this is test case and expected result (first one is expected result, the second one is my result)
console.log(reverseString("aaabccc")); // "cccbaaa" "undefinedundefinedundefinedundefinedaaa"
console.log(reverseString("aab")); // "baa" "undefinedundefineda"
console.log(reverseString("aaaacccc")); // "ccccaaaa" "ccccundefinedaaa"
console.log(reverseString("abcdefghabcdef")); // "habcdefabcdefg" "habcdefundefinedabcdefg"
could you help me, whats wrong with it. Thank you

You could try another approach and use the slice function
function reverseString(string)
{
if (string.length < 2) { return string; }
let stringHalfLength = string.length / 2;
let isLengthOdd = stringHalfLength % 1 !== 0;
if (isLengthOdd) {
return string.slice(Math.ceil(stringHalfLength), string.length + 1) + string[Math.floor(stringHalfLength)] + string.slice(0, Math.floor(stringHalfLength));
}
return string.slice(stringHalfLength, string.length + 1) + string.slice(0, stringHalfLength);
}
console.log(reverseString("aaabccc") === "cccbaaa");
console.log(reverseString("aab") === "baa");
console.log(reverseString("aaaacccc") === "ccccaaaa");
console.log(reverseString("abcdefghabcdef") === "habcdefabcdefg");

A more efficient way to reverse the string would be to split the string, then use the built-in reverse javascript function (which reverses the elements of the split string), and then re-join the elements using the join function.. No need to re-invent the wheel?
You can concatenate the functions in shorthand (.split.reverse.join etc...) so your function would look something like this:
function reverseString(string) {
return string.split("").reverse().join("");
}
Try it out!
function reverseString(string) {
return string.split("").reverse().join("");
}
console.log(reverseString("hello"));
console.log(reverseString("aaabbbccc"));
If there's a particular reason you're opting not to use the in-built functions (i.e. if I've missed something?) , feel free to comment.

The short version of what you need:
function reverseString(string) {
const splitPosition = Math.ceil(string.length / 2);
return string.substring(splitPosition) + string.substring(0, splitPosition);
}

The key to your question is the middle element. To accomplish that, you probably want to use Math.floor that round under.
console.log(reverseString("aaabccc")); // "cccbaaa"
console.log(reverseString("abcdefghabcdef")); // "habcdefabcdefg"
function reverseString (str) {
if (str.length<2) {
return str
}
var half = Math.floor(str.length / 2);
return (str.slice(-half) + (str.length%2?str[half]:"") + str.slice(0,half));
}
reverseString('')
> ""
reverseString('1')
> "1"
reverseString('12')
> "21"
reverseString('123')
> "321"
reverseString('1234')
> "3412"
reverseString('12345')
> "45312"
reverseString("aaabccc")
> "cccbaaa"
reverseString("abcdefghabcdef")
> "habcdefabcdefg"
So basically your problem is not to grab 2 parts of the string and rearrange, it is to grab 3 parts.
1 part: str.slice(0,half)
2 part: str.length%2 ? str[half] : ""
3 part: str.slice(-half)
The second part is empty if the string length is even and the middle character if is odd.
So the code version in long self explanatory code:
function reverseString (str) {
if (str.length<2) {
return str
}
var half = Math.floor(str.length / 2);
var firstPart = str.slice(0,half);
var midlePart = str.length % 2 ? str[half] : ""; // we could expand also this
var endPart = str.slice(-half);
return endPart + midlePart + firstPart;
}
And also, notice the precondition, so I don't have to deal with the easy cases.
Also, in your code, you got undefined because you access in the last loop to:
string[string.length] you need to change <= by <

Replace consecutive white spaces between words with one hyphen

The question is from freecodecamp Link
Fill in the urlSlug function so it converts a string title and returns the hyphenated version for the URL. You can use any of the methods covered in this section, and don't use replace. Here are the requirements:
The input is a string with spaces and title-cased words
The output is a string with the spaces between words replaced by a
hyphen (-)
The output should be all lower-cased letters
The output should not have any spaces
// the global variable
var globalTitle = " Winter Is Coming";
function urlSlug(title) {
let toArr = title.split("");
let newArr = toArr.map(a=> {
if(a==" "){
a= "-";
}
return a.toLowerCase();
} );
if(newArr[0] == "-"){
newArr.splice(0,1);
}
let finalArr = newArr.join("");
return finalArr;
}
// Add your code above this line
var winterComing = urlSlug(globalTitle); // Should be "winter-is-coming"
console.log(urlSlug(globalTitle));
Right now I have not been able to solve how I could get rid of the extra hyphen from the output.
I'm not supposed to use replace.

You could do this easily using trim() and a simple regex:
var globalTitle = " Winter Is Coming Now ";
var slug = globalTitle.trim().replace(/[ ]+/g, '-').toLowerCase();
console.log(slug);
[ ]+ ensures that any number of spaces (1 or more) gets replaced with a minus sign once.
If for some reason you can't use replace, you could use Array.filter() like so:
var title = " Winter Is Coming Now ";
var slug = title.split(" ").filter(word => word.length > 0).join("-").toLowerCase();
console.log(slug);

I was working on it till now , Haven't looked at the answers.
But I solved it this way. Might be inefficient.
// the global variable
var globalTitle = "Winter Is Coming";
function urlSlug(title) {
let toArr = title.split("");
let newArr = toArr.map(a=> {
if(a==" "){
a= "-";
}
return a.toLowerCase();
} );
if(newArr[0] == "-"){
newArr.splice(0,1);
}
for(let i=0;i<newArr.length;i++){
if(newArr[i-1]=="-"&& newArr[i]=="-")
{
newArr.splice(i,1,"");
}
}
let finalArr = newArr.join("");
return finalArr;
}
var winterComing = urlSlug(globalTitle); // Should be "winter-is-coming"
console.log(urlSlug(globalTitle));

Another option would be to continue your thought of split() and then use reduce to reduce the elements of the array to a single output:
var globalTitle = " Winter Is Coming";
function urlSlug(title) {
let split = title.split(' ');
return split.reduce((accumulator, currentValue, index) => {
if (currentValue.length > 0) {
accumulator += currentValue.toLowerCase();
accumulator += (index < split.length - 1) ? '-' : '';
}
return accumulator;
});
}
console.log(urlSlug(globalTitle));

How to get odd and even position characters from a string?

I'm trying to figure out how to remove every second character (starting from the first one) from a string in Javascript.
For example, the string "This is a test!" should become "hsi etTi sats!"
I also want to save every deleted character into another array.
I have tried using replace method and splice method, but wasn't able to get them to work properly. Mostly because replace only replaces the first character.
function encrypt(text, n) {
if (text === "NULL") return n;
if (n <= 0) return text;
var encArr = [];
var newString = text.split("");
var j = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i += 2) {
encArr[j++] = text[i];
newString.splice(i, 1); // this line doesn't work properly
}
}

You could reduce the characters of the string and group them to separate arrays using the % operator. Use destructuring to get the 2D array returned to separate variables
let str = "This is a test!";
const [even, odd] = [...str].reduce((r,char,i) => (r[i%2].push(char), r), [[],[]])
console.log(odd.join(''))
console.log(even.join(''))
Using a for loop:
let str = "This is a test!",
odd = [],
even = [];
for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
i % 2 === 0
? even.push(str[i])
: odd.push(str[i])
}
console.log(odd.join(''))
console.log(even.join(''))

It would probably be easier to use a regular expression and .replace: capture two characters in separate capturing groups, add the first character to a string, and replace with the second character. Then, you'll have first half of the output you need in one string, and the second in another: just concatenate them together and return:
function encrypt(text) {
let removedText = '';
const replacedText1 = text.replace(/(.)(.)?/g, (_, firstChar, secondChar) => {
// in case the match was at the end of the string,
// and the string has an odd number of characters:
if (!secondChar) secondChar = '';
// remove the firstChar from the string, while adding it to removedText:
removedText += firstChar;
return secondChar;
});
return replacedText1 + removedText;
}
console.log(encrypt('This is a test!'));

Pretty simple with .reduce() to create the two arrays you seem to want.
function encrypt(text) {
return text.split("")
.reduce(({odd, even}, c, i) =>
i % 2 ? {odd: [...odd, c], even} : {odd, even: [...even, c]}
, {odd: [], even: []})
}
console.log(encrypt("This is a test!"));
They can be converted to strings by using .join("") if you desire.

I think you were on the right track. What you missed is replace is using either a string or RegExp.
The replace() method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement. The pattern can be a string or a RegExp, and the replacement can be a string or a function to be called for each match. If pattern is a string, only the first occurrence will be replaced.
Source: String.prototype.replace()
If you are replacing a value (and not a regular expression), only the first instance of the value will be replaced. To replace all occurrences of a specified value, use the global (g) modifier
Source: JavaScript String replace() Method
So my suggestion would be to continue still with replace and pass the right RegExp to the function, I guess you can figure out from this example - this removes every second occurrence for char 't':
let count = 0;
let testString = 'test test test test';
console.log('original', testString);
// global modifier in RegExp
let result = testString.replace(/t/g, function (match) {
count++;
return (count % 2 === 0) ? '' : match;
});
console.log('removed', result);

like this?
var text = "This is a test!"
var result = ""
var rest = ""
for(var i = 0; i < text.length; i++){
if( (i%2) != 0 ){
result += text[i]
} else{
rest += text[i]
}
}
console.log(result+rest)

Maybe with split, filter and join:
const remaining = myString.split('').filter((char, i) => i % 2 !== 0).join('');
const deleted = myString.split('').filter((char, i) => i % 2 === 0).join('');

You could take an array and splice and push each second item to the end of the array.
function encrypt(string) {
var array = [...string],
i = 0,
l = array.length >> 1;
while (i <= l) array.push(array.splice(i++, 1)[0]);
return array.join('');
}
console.log(encrypt("This is a test!"));

function encrypt(text) {
text = text.split("");
var removed = []
var encrypted = text.filter((letter, index) => {
if(index % 2 == 0){
removed.push(letter)
return false;
}
return true
}).join("")
return {
full: encrypted + removed.join(""),
encrypted: encrypted,
removed: removed
}
}
console.log(encrypt("This is a test!"))
Splice does not work, because if you remove an element from an array in for loop indexes most probably will be wrong when removing another element.

I don't know how much you care about performance, but using regex is not very efficient.
Simple test for quite a long string shows that using filter function is on average about 3 times faster, which can make quite a difference when performed on very long strings or on many, many shorts ones.
function test(func, n){
var text = "";
for(var i = 0; i < n; ++i){
text += "a";
}
var start = new Date().getTime();
func(text);
var end = new Date().getTime();
var time = (end-start) / 1000.0;
console.log(func.name, " took ", time, " seconds")
return time;
}
function encryptREGEX(text) {
let removedText = '';
const replacedText1 = text.replace(/(.)(.)?/g, (_, firstChar, secondChar) => {
// in case the match was at the end of the string,
// and the string has an odd number of characters:
if (!secondChar) secondChar = '';
// remove the firstChar from the string, while adding it to removedText:
removedText += firstChar;
return secondChar;
});
return replacedText1 + removedText;
}
function encrypt(text) {
text = text.split("");
var removed = "";
var encrypted = text.filter((letter, index) => {
if(index % 2 == 0){
removed += letter;
return false;
}
return true
}).join("")
return encrypted + removed
}
var timeREGEX = test(encryptREGEX, 10000000);
var timeFilter = test(encrypt, 10000000);
console.log("Using filter is faster ", timeREGEX/timeFilter, " times")
Using actually an array for storing removed letters and then joining them is much more efficient, than using a string and concatenating letters to it.
I changed an array to string in filter solution to make it the same like in regex solution, so they are more comparable.

Regex split on comma don't split on comma between double quotes [duplicate]

I'm looking for [a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h]to turn into an array of 6 elements: a, b, c, "d,e,f", g, h. I'm trying to do this through Javascript. This is what I have so far:
str = str.split(/,+|"[^"]+"/g);
But right now it's splitting out everything that's in the double-quotes, which is incorrect.
Edit: Okay sorry I worded this question really poorly. I'm being given a string not an array.
var str = 'a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h';
And I want to turn that into an array using something like the "split" function.

Here's what I would do.
var str = 'a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h';
var arr = str.match(/(".*?"|[^",\s]+)(?=\s*,|\s*$)/g);
/* will match:
(
".*?" double quotes + anything but double quotes + double quotes
| OR
[^",\s]+ 1 or more characters excl. double quotes, comma or spaces of any kind
)
(?= FOLLOWED BY
\s*, 0 or more empty spaces and a comma
| OR
\s*$ 0 or more empty spaces and nothing else (end of string)
)
*/
arr = arr || [];
// this will prevent JS from throwing an error in
// the below loop when there are no matches
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) console.log('arr['+i+'] =',arr[i]);

regex: /,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/
const input_line = '"2C95699FFC68","201 S BOULEVARDRICHMOND, VA 23220","8299600062754882","2018-09-23"'
let my_split = input_line.split(/,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/)[4]
Output:
my_split[0]: "2C95699FFC68",
my_split[1]: "201 S BOULEVARDRICHMOND, VA 23220",
my_split[2]: "8299600062754882",
my_split[3]: "2018-09-23"
Reference following link for an explanation: regexr.com/44u6o

Here is a JavaScript function to do it:
function splitCSVButIgnoreCommasInDoublequotes(str) {
//split the str first
//then merge the elments between two double quotes
var delimiter = ',';
var quotes = '"';
var elements = str.split(delimiter);
var newElements = [];
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; ++i) {
if (elements[i].indexOf(quotes) >= 0) {//the left double quotes is found
var indexOfRightQuotes = -1;
var tmp = elements[i];
//find the right double quotes
for (var j = i + 1; j < elements.length; ++j) {
if (elements[j].indexOf(quotes) >= 0) {
indexOfRightQuotes = j;
break;
}
}
//found the right double quotes
//merge all the elements between double quotes
if (-1 != indexOfRightQuotes) {
for (var j = i + 1; j <= indexOfRightQuotes; ++j) {
tmp = tmp + delimiter + elements[j];
}
newElements.push(tmp);
i = indexOfRightQuotes;
}
else { //right double quotes is not found
newElements.push(elements[i]);
}
}
else {//no left double quotes is found
newElements.push(elements[i]);
}
}
return newElements;
}

Here's a non-regex one that assumes doublequotes will come in pairs:
function splitCsv(str) {
return str.split(',').reduce((accum,curr)=>{
if(accum.isConcatting) {
accum.soFar[accum.soFar.length-1] += ','+curr
} else {
accum.soFar.push(curr)
}
if(curr.split('"').length % 2 == 0) {
accum.isConcatting= !accum.isConcatting
}
return accum;
},{soFar:[],isConcatting:false}).soFar
}
console.log(splitCsv('asdf,"a,d",fdsa'),' should be ',['asdf','"a,d"','fdsa'])
console.log(splitCsv(',asdf,,fds,'),' should be ',['','asdf','','fds',''])
console.log(splitCsv('asdf,"a,,,d",fdsa'),' should be ',['asdf','"a,,,d"','fdsa'])

This works well for me. (I used semicolons so the alert message would show the difference between commas added when turning the array into a string and the actual captured values.)
REGEX
/("[^"]*")|[^;]+/
var str = 'a; b; c; "d; e; f"; g; h; "i"';
var array = str.match(/("[^"]*")|[^;]+/g);
alert(array);

Here's the regex we're using to extract valid arguments from a comma-separated argument list, supporting double-quoted arguments. It works for the outlined edge cases. E.g.
doesn't include quotes in the matches
works with white spaces in matches
works with empty fields
(?<=")[^"]+?(?="(?:\s*?,|\s*?$))|(?<=(?:^|,)\s*?)(?:[^,"\s][^,"]*[^,"\s])|(?:[^,"\s])(?![^"]*?"(?:\s*?,|\s*?$))(?=\s*?(?:,|$))
Proof: https://regex101.com/r/UL8kyy/3/tests (Note: currently only works in Chrome because the regex uses lookbehinds which are only supported in ECMA2018)
According to our guidelines it avoids non-capturing groups and greedy matching.
I'm sure it can be simplified, I'm open to suggestions / additional test cases.
For anyone interested, the first part matches double-quoted, comma-delimited arguments:
(?<=")[^"]+?(?="(?:\s*?,|\s*?$))
And the second part matches comma-delimited arguments by themselves:
(?<=(?:^|,)\s*?)(?:[^,"\s][^,"]*[^,"\s])|(?:[^,"\s])(?![^"]*?"(?:\s*?,|\s*?$))(?=\s*?(?:,|$))

I almost liked the accepted answer, but it didn't parse the space correctly, and/or it left the double quotes untrimmed, so here is my function:
/**
* Splits the given string into components, and returns the components array.
* Each component must be separated by a comma.
* If the component contains one or more comma(s), it must be wrapped with double quotes.
* The double quote must not be used inside components (replace it with a special string like __double__quotes__ for instance, then transform it again into double quotes later...).
*
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11456850/split-a-string-by-commas-but-ignore-commas-within-double-quotes-using-javascript
*/
function splitComponentsByComma(str){
var ret = [];
var arr = str.match(/(".*?"|[^",]+)(?=\s*,|\s*$)/g);
for (let i in arr) {
let element = arr[i];
if ('"' === element[0]) {
element = element.substr(1, element.length - 2);
} else {
element = arr[i].trim();
}
ret.push(element);
}
return ret;
}
console.log(splitComponentsByComma('Hello World, b, c, "d, e, f", c')); // [ 'Hello World', 'b', 'c', 'd, e, f', 'c' ]

Parse any CSV or CSV-String code based on TYPESCRIPT
public parseCSV(content:string):any[string]{
return content.split("\n").map(ar=>ar.split(/,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/).map(refi=>refi.replace(/[\x00-\x08\x0E-\x1F\x7F-\uFFFF]/g, "").trim()));
}
var str='"abc",jkl,1000,qwerty6000';
parseCSV(str);
output :
[
"abc","jkl","1000","qwerty6000"
]

I know it's a bit long, but here's my take:
var sample="[a, b, c, \"d, e, f\", g, h]";
var inQuotes = false, items = [], currentItem = '';
for(var i = 0; i < sample.length; i++) {
if (sample[i] == '"') {
inQuotes = !inQuotes;
if (!inQuotes) {
if (currentItem.length) items.push(currentItem);
currentItem = '';
}
continue;
}
if ((/^[\"\[\]\,\s]$/gi).test(sample[i]) && !inQuotes) {
if (currentItem.length) items.push(currentItem);
currentItem = '';
continue;
}
currentItem += sample[i];
}
if (currentItem.length) items.push(currentItem);
console.log(items);
As a side note, it will work both with, and without the braces in the start and end.

This takes a csv file one line at a time and spits back an array with commas inside speech marks intact. if there are no speech marks detected it just .split(",")s as normal... could probs replace that second loop with something but it does the job as is
function parseCSVLine(str){
if(str.indexOf("\"")>-1){
var aInputSplit = str.split(",");
var aOutput = [];
var iMatch = 0;
//var adding = 0;
for(var i=0;i<aInputSplit.length;i++){
if(aInputSplit[i].indexOf("\"")>-1){
var sWithCommas = aInputSplit[i];
for(var z=i;z<aInputSplit.length;z++){
if(z !== i && aInputSplit[z].indexOf("\"") === -1){
sWithCommas+= ","+aInputSplit[z];
}else if(z !== i && aInputSplit[z].indexOf("\"") > -1){
sWithCommas+= ","+aInputSplit[z];
sWithCommas.replace(new RegExp("\"", 'g'), "");
aOutput.push(sWithCommas);
i=z;
z=aInputSplit.length+1;
iMatch++;
}
if(z === aInputSplit.length-1){
if(iMatch === 0){
aOutput.push(aInputSplit[z]);
}
iMatch = 0;
}
}
}else{
aOutput.push(aInputSplit[i]);
}
}
return aOutput
}else{
return str.split(",")
}
}

Use the npm library csv-string to parse the strings instead of split: https://www.npmjs.com/package/csv-string
This will handle the empty entries

Something like a stack should do the trick. Here I vaguely use marker boolean as stack (just getting my purpose served with it).
var str = "a,b,c,blah\"d,=,f\"blah,\"g,h,";
var getAttributes = function(str){
var result = [];
var strBuf = '';
var start = 0 ;
var marker = false;
for (var i = 0; i< str.length; i++){
if (str[i] === '"'){
marker = !marker;
}
if (str[i] === ',' && !marker){
result.push(str.substr(start, i - start));
start = i+1;
}
}
if (start <= str.length){
result.push(str.substr(start, i - start));
}
return result;
};
console.log(getAttributes(str));

jsfiddle setting image code output image
The code works if your input string in the format of stringTocompare.
Run the code on https://jsfiddle.net/ to see output for fiddlejs setting.
Please refer to the screenshot.
You can either use split function for the same for the code below it and tweak the code according to you need.
Remove the bold or word with in ** from the code if you dont want to have comma after split attach=attach**+","**+actualString[t+1].
var stringTocompare='"Manufacturer","12345","6001","00",,"Calfe,eto,lin","Calfe,edin","4","20","10","07/01/2018","01/01/2006",,,,,,,,"03/31/2004"';
console.log(stringTocompare);
var actualString=stringTocompare.split(',');
console.log("Before");
for(var i=0;i<actualString.length;i++){
console.log(actualString[i]);
}
//var actualString=stringTocompare.split(/,(?=(?:(?:[^"]*"){2})*[^"]*$)/);
for(var i=0;i<actualString.length;i++){
var flag=0;
var x=actualString[i];
if(x!==null)
{
if(x[0]=='"' && x[x.length-1]!=='"'){
var p=0;
var t=i;
var b=i;
for(var k=i;k<actualString.length;k++){
var y=actualString[k];
if(y[y.length-1]!=='"'){
p++;
}
if(y[y.length-1]=='"'){
flag=1;
}
if(flag==1)
break;
}
var attach=actualString[t];
for(var s=p;s>0;s--){
attach=attach+","+actualString[t+1];
t++;
}
actualString[i]=attach;
actualString.splice(b+1,p);
}
}
}
console.log("After");
for(var i=0;i<actualString.length;i++){
console.log(actualString[i]);
}
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/3FcxM.png

I solved this with a simple parser.
It simply goes through the string char by char, splitting off a segment when it finds the split_char (e.g. comma), but also has an on/off flag which is switched by finding the encapsulator_char (e.g. quote). It doesn't require the encapsulator to be at the start of the field/segment (a,b","c,d would produce 3 segments, with 'b","c' as the second), but it should work for a well formed CSV with escaped encapsulator chars.
function split_except_within(text, split_char, encapsulator_char, escape_char) {
var start = 0
var encapsulated = false
var fields = []
for (var c = 0; c < text.length; c++) {
var char = text[c]
if (char === split_char && ! encapsulated) {
fields.push(text.substring(start, c))
start = c+1
}
if (char === encapsulator_char && (c === 0 || text[c-1] !== escape_char) )
encapsulated = ! encapsulated
}
fields.push(text.substring(start))
return fields
}
https://jsfiddle.net/7hty8Lvr/1/

const csvSplit = (line) => {
let splitLine = [];
var quotesplit = line.split('"');
var lastindex = quotesplit.length - 1;
// split evens removing outside quotes, push odds
quotesplit.forEach((val, index) => {
if (index % 2 === 0) {
var firstchar = (index == 0) ? 0 : 1;
var trimmed = (index == lastindex)
? val.substring(firstchar)
: val.slice(firstchar, -1);
trimmed.split(",").forEach(v => splitLine.push(v));
} else {
splitLine.push(val);
}
});
return splitLine;
}
this works as long as quotes always come on the outside of values that contain the commas that need to be excluded (i.e. a csv file).
if you have stuff like '1,2,4"2,6",8'
it will not work.

Assuming your string really looks like '[a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h]', I believe this would be 'an acceptable use case for eval():
myString = 'var myArr ' + myString;
eval(myString);
console.log(myArr); // will now be an array of elements: a, b, c, "d, e, f", g, h
Edit: As Rocket pointed out, strict mode removes eval's ability to inject variables into the local scope, meaning you'd want to do this:
var myArr = eval(myString);

I've had similar issues with this, and I've found no good .net solution so went DIY. NOTE: This was also used to reply to
Splitting comma separated string, ignore commas in quotes, but allow strings with one double quotation
but seems more applicable here (but useful over there)
In my application I'm parsing a csv so my split credential is ",". this method I suppose only works for where you have a single char split argument.
So, I've written a function that ignores commas within double quotes. it does it by converting the input string into a character array and parsing char by char
public static string[] Splitter_IgnoreQuotes(string stringToSplit)
{
char[] CharsOfData = stringToSplit.ToCharArray();
//enter your expected array size here or alloc.
string[] dataArray = new string[37];
int arrayIndex = 0;
bool DoubleQuotesJustSeen = false;
foreach (char theChar in CharsOfData)
{
//did we just see double quotes, and no command? dont split then. you could make ',' a variable for your split parameters I'm working with a csv.
if ((theChar != ',' || DoubleQuotesJustSeen) && theChar != '"')
{
dataArray[arrayIndex] = dataArray[arrayIndex] + theChar;
}
else if (theChar == '"')
{
if (DoubleQuotesJustSeen)
{
DoubleQuotesJustSeen = false;
}
else
{
DoubleQuotesJustSeen = true;
}
}
else if (theChar == ',' && !DoubleQuotesJustSeen)
{
arrayIndex++;
}
}
return dataArray;
}
This function, to my application taste also ignores ("") in any input as these are unneeded and present in my input.

Adding equal amount of whitespace to both ends of string

function space(str, numspace)
{
output="";
for(i=0;i<str.length;++i)
{
output = numspace+ str;
}
for(i=0;i<str.length;++i)
{
output = output + numspace;
}
return output;
}
I am trying to get this function to add an equal amount of whitespace to both ends of the string. I am not allowed to use built-in functions so that explains why i'm doing this the long way.
The output I get with the code I have :
space("hello","--")
"--hello-----------"
The "-" signify spaces, so the amount of spaces on the left side of the string is correct, but the amount of spaces on the right side of the string is way to much. Anyone have any ideas why this is occuring?

Why not do this instead:
const space = (str, numspace) => {
const spc = Array(numspace).fill(' ').join('')
return spc+str+spc
}
console.log(space("ap", 3))
What it does:
Create a spc variable which has as many spaces as numspace demands
Join spc on both sides of str
Edit - The longer way
const space = (str, numspace) => {
let spc = ''
for (;numspace--;spc+=' '){}
return spc+str+spc
}
console.log(space('ap',3))

If numspace is an integer, then you can use that value as the upper boundary in a for loop like so:
function space(str, numspace)
{
var emptySpace = "";
for (i = 0; i < numspace; i++){
emptySpace += " ";
}
var output = emptySpace + str + emptySpace;
return output;
}
console.log("'" + space('example1', 5) + "'");
console.log("'" + space('example2', 3) + "'");
console.log("'" + space('example3', 1) + "'");
This way you'll create a variable emptySpace that is a string numspace in length of white space and attach it to the front and back of the str string before returning the output.
EDIT: Based on information from the comments of OP I have changed the function.

Just surround it with anything that you want to have in both side.
function space(str, numspace)
{
output=str;
for(i=0;i<str.length;++i)
{
output = numspace + output + numspace;
}
return output;
}

This function can be used to append any number of characters to the text
var output = addSpace('hello','*',4);
alert(output); // output ****hello****
function addSpace(text,character,no){
var appendChar = character;
for(var i=1;i<no;i++) {
appendChar = appendChar+character;
}
return appendChar+text+appendChar;
}