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How do I create a custom javascript variable that selects part of an already existing javascript variable?

I am trying to create a custom javascript variable in GTM that returns part of a javascript variable that already exists.
Variable that already exists: window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name
returns this: "Bamboo Basic String - Schwarz - S"
However I want to code a custom javascript variable to just return the Schwarz part, is this possible? If so what is the code that I would need?
Please can someone let me know what code to put into GTM to create this variable?
TIA

If all names are pretty much the same you could use split to get that part of string and then remove whitespaces. It would look like this:
window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name.split('-')[1].replace(/
/g,'');

If the already existing variable is always structured the same way you could do something like this:
let variable = window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name.split('-')
Then by calling varaible[1] you get the 'Schwartz' part of the variable.

If you want a return value you can use a function like the following and call it wherever you want.
Simply make sure to pass the correct argument content
// Declaring a function getColor that returns the second element in the list,
// trimmed (without spaces before and after)
const getColor = (content) => {
return content.split('-')[1].trim();
}
const test = "Bamboo Basic String - Schwarz - S";
console.log(getColor(test));
//console.log(getColor(window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name));

You could split the string on the hypens (-) like this:
const productName = window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name;
const part = productName.split(' - ')[1];
Assuming you have a consistent format, and you always want the second part after that hyphen.
split will separate parts of a string into an array where it finds a match for the argument. The first index [0] will be the product name, the second [1] will be the part you're looking for.
This could cause issues if you have a product name with a - in it too though so use with care!
If it needs to be an anonymous function for GTM, you could try the following (though I'm not a GTM expert):
function () {
const productName = window.ShopifyAnalytics.meta.product.variants.0.name;
return productName.split(' - ')[1] || 'Unknown';
}

Why missing one character from my regex?

I have a very good regex function which call in here:
<input onkeyup="vimeo();">
But the problem is, when the user paste a link in to the input, he get this link:
//player.imeo.com/video/VIDEOID
You see? Missing "v" from vimeo and I can't pass on this problem.
If I delete the "/" character before of "v" I get repeated value, for example:
//player.player.player.player.player.player.player.player.vimeo.com/video/VIDEOID
My replace script looks like this:
var vimeo = function(){
var str2;
$('#url').keyup(function(){
str2 = $(this).val();
$(this).val(str2.replace(/(?:http:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:vimeo\.com)\/(.+)/g, '\/\/player/\.\vimeo\.\com\/video/$1'));
});
};
How can I fix missing "v" without repeat any value?
Update:
Demo link is here:
http://neocsatblog.mblx.hu/addvideos/

The problem is your replacement string. You don't need to escape any characters. The second argument of the replace method takes a string, not another regular expression.
'\/\/player/\.\vimeo\.\com\/video/$1'
You can just do this:
'//player.vimeo.com/video/$1'
I am not sure why you are using a keyup event on your input as well as your url element, however.
I changed your function a bit and it works for me.
EDIT
Since you want to only use one field, you'll need to use onchange to format the url once the user is done editing. I've changed the function to reflect this change. Notice, you don't even need jQuery anymore.
var vimeo = function(elem) {
var str2 = elem.value;
elem.value = str2.replace(/(?:http:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:vimeo\.com)\/(.+)/g, '//player.vimeo.com/video/$1');
};
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input onchange="vimeo(this);">

Using forms and POST method to get URL parameters through Javascript

So let's say there's a URL http://example.com/index.html/hello/hi where "hello" and "hi" are parameters.
How would you use javascript and forms method POST to extract the parameters?

Your subject is a little bit vague. However, I thought I'd made an example of possibilities.
http://jsfiddle.net/tive/LjbPq/
The idea is to split the URL for each character /, in whatever way you received it.
var parts = document.URL.split("/");
Since split() returns an array (zero based), you need to distract 1 from the total length to get the last index.
var lastPart = parts[parts.length - 1];
Run this in a for loop, and you should get the idea as occurring in the example.
documentation on document.URL to retreive the complete URL
documentation on window.location to use properties of a url (protocol, href, pathname, ...)

this could work...
var secondvar = window.location.href.split('/')[window.location.href.split('/').length];
var firstvar = window.location.href.split('/')[window.location.href.split('/').length-1];

Get values from hash in URL using jquery

If I re-rite the URL using :
var id = 150
window.location.hash = "id="+id;
how to get the value of id using jQuery ?

No jQuery needed..
var id = /^#?id=(.+)/.exec(location.hash);
id = id ? id[1] : '';
// OR
var id = location.hash.substr(4); // (when hash can only be #id=..)
// This also selects 123 in #no=123 (!)

+1 for Rob W's answer not to use jQuery for this. But there're two things, i'd like to point out.
1.) Executing a regular expression, plus using a tertiary operator is "overload", too. ;-)
2.) You should consider that some browers return the hash symbol, and some don't!
To avoid to truncate the actual value part, I'd say it's safer to use replace(), instead of substr():
var id = location.hash.replace('id=', '').replace('#', '');
UPDATE:
I think split() is an even better solution:
var id = location.hash.split('id=')[1];
Just one (native) function call, which also "checks" if the request URL actually contains a hash that contains the string "id=idString".
If it does, the value of var id is "idString". If not, value of var id is undefined.

javascript or jquery - get the last 2 characters of href

I need to get the last 2 characters from the href of a link and place them into a string.
I'm sure this is fairly simple but I seem to be struggling.
Here's the link
test
I need to grab the "bb" part of the href.

Presuming link is a reference to the element:
var chars = link.href.substr(-2);
If you need to get the reference to the link, it is best to give the link an ID attribute, e.g. <a href="../mypage/?code=bb" id="myLink">, where myLink is something that describes the link's purpose. You can then do this:
var chars = document.getElementById('myLink').href.substr(-2);
Finally, if what you want is the code parameter from your link, it may be best to parse the URL into parts. If there is a chance that your URL may be more complex that what you've shown, you should do real URL parsing. As Rahul has pointed out in his answer there are some jQuery plugins that perform this function.

try
$(function() {
var res = $('a').attr('href').split(/=/)[1]
alert(res);
});
This will not grab the last two character, but everything after the = sign which works probably more generic. And even if the <center> cannot hold, regex could look like
$(function() {
var href = $('a').attr('href'),
res = /\\?code=(\w+)/.exec(href);
alert(res[1]);
});

var href = $('a').attr('href');
var last2char = href.substr(href.length-2);

You can try for some querystring plugins which might be a better option.