I have an array of strings in object form received from file, only I need to add quotation mark around parameter names of objects which are strings inside an array and around their values between square brackets to convert those strings to proper objects.
["{Durdham Hall Electric: [e4.kwh]}", "{University Hall Substation: [e1.kwh]}",
"{University Hall Substation: [e2.kwh]}"]
I have no idea how to loop through values and to add required symbol in required part.
Maybe change
options.push('<option value="' + '{' + data[devices][1] + ': ' + '[' + 'e' + i + '.kwh' + ']' + '}' + '" >' + meterName + '</option>')
to something like this, then you get a little nice parsable JSON
var data = [[0, 'Durdham Hall Electric:']],
devices = 0,
meterName = 'meterName',
i = 3,
options = [];
options.push('<option value="' + '{ \\"device\\": \\"' + data[devices][1] + '\\", \\"kwh\\": \\"' + 'e' + i + '\\"}' + '">' + meterName + '</option>');
alert(options);You can use Regex and forEach to do this:
var data = ["{Durdham Hall Electric: [e4.kwh]}", "{University Hall Substation: [e1.kwh]}",
"{University Hall Substation: [e2.kwh]}"];
data.forEach(function(v,i){
data[i] = JSON.parse( v.replace(/{(.+):\s\[(.*)\]}/g, '{"$1":["$2"]}') );
});
console.log(data); // Open your console to see the resultsIf the strings are always starting with a { you can use substring and then combine the string back together.
String part1;
String part2;
String result;
String str = "{Durdham Hall Electric: [e4.kwh]}"
Then use index of to find the :
part1 = str.subString(1, str.indexOf(":"));
part2 = str.subString(str.indexOf(":"), str.length());
result = "{\"" + part1 + "\"" + part2;
Believe something like this could work however you do have to make some assumptions. This is only for a single element so you would have a loop for each item in your string array.
