I have the following string
server:all, nit:4545, search:dql has map
with the regular expression /(\w+):((?:"[^"]*"|[^:,])*)/g I get
["server:all", "nit:4545", "search:dql has map"] //Array
But I want to get
{server:"all","nit":"4545","search":"dql has map"}
OR
[{server:"all"},{"nit":"4545"},{"search":"dql has map"}]
You can use a simple regex for key:value and use a look using exec:
var str = 'server:all, nit:4545, search:dql has map';
var re = /([\w-]+):([^,]+)/g;
var m;
var map = {};
while ((m = re.exec(str)) != null) {
map[m[1]] = m[2];
}
console.log(map);You can use String#replace to loop over the matches and captures and assign those to an empty object.
const string = 'server:all, nit:4545, search:dql has map';
const regex = /(\w+):((?:"[^"]*"|[^:,])*)/g;
const map = {};
string.replace(regex, (m, c1, c2) => {
map[c1] = c2;
});
console.log(map);
regex#exec without the need to modify the original string, seems unnecessary
replace for looping is a purpose of replace. The source I provided in my answer takes you to an example on the MDN docs of using replace for exactly this situation.For your example data, you could also first split on a comma and then split on a colon:
let str = "server:all, nit:4545, search:dql has map";
let result = {};
str.split(',').forEach(function(elm) {
[k, v] = elm.trim().split(':');
result[k] = v;
});
console.log(result);