separate data with comma separated values and store them in a array

[Prashant Langade]

Hi

My requirement is this that i have to iterate over the values which are comma separated and put them in a array so that i can iterate over them
again to put them in a dropdwon box.

Detailed:

I have a javascript function in which i gettting a var with values separated by ","(comma)

for e.g var data = TA,FA,SA,BA,SA;

Now i want to separate these values and store them in a javascript array(i.e dataArray) so that i can iterate those and put in dropdwon box using some thing like below.

 

for (var i=0; i < dataArray.length;++i){            	
        addOption(drpDwn,xmlHttp.responseText[i], xmlHttp.responseText[i]);
 }
   

where drpDwn is my var drpDwn = document.getElementById("id of the dropdown");

here is my addOption function.

  
function addOption(selectbox,text,value )
   {
	   var optn = document.createElement("OPTION");
	   optn.text = text;
	   optn.value = value;
	   selectbox.options.add(optn);
   }  
 

so basically i need to know the way of separating the data and storeing them in the javascript array.

[Prashant Langade]

Hey good news!!


I go the solution

var myArray = myString.split(",");

I need to use this in order to split the string.

Thanks and Regards
Prashant

[Sean Clark]

Hey,

There is a js function [ib]split()[/b] function which will do this.
See http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp

Sean