Getting multiple numbers from string in Javascript

Question

In Javascript, I have the following string:

var string = "((52.33962959999999, 13.09116629999994), (52.6754542, 13.761117600000034))"

which I want to convert into an array, object, or anything to easily get to each of the numbers separately.

Right now, I'm using:

string = string.split('(').join('');
string = string.split(')').join('');
string = string.split(', ');

which gives me a one-dimensional array of the four numbers.

Is there not a nicer, easier way? One that would give me a multi-dimensional array, for example?

Alex Wolf · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-21 12:01:10Z

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You could do this:

var arrayString = string.replace(/\(/g, '[').replace(/\)/g, ']');
var numberArray = JSON.parse(arrayString);

This replaces all ( with [ and ) with ]. Now you can parse it as a JavaScript object.

Output would be a two dimensional array, just as your notation.

answered May 21, 2014 at 12:01

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David P. Caldwell Over a year ago

This is probably better than what poster asked for, although poster's answer will return these as strings, so if that's what poster needs, this'd need to be massaged a bit.

Prusse Over a year ago

IF he have control of the formatting of the input string he could use json notation an avoid the replaces.

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