I've tried to see if there were any scripts to convert a list of words into an array and I can't seem to find one.
Anyone know where I can find one?
Input:
Dog
Cat
Hamster
Gets converted to
["Dog", "Cat", "Hamster"]
Noo.. this isn't what I mean. I have a txt file with a bunch of words on each line and I was wondering if there was something out there already created that can convert each word into an array.
Just use split
on the string.
For example:
var textarea = document.getElementById('list');
var arr = [];
textarea.addEventListener('input', function () {
arr = this.value.split('\n');
console.log(arr);
}, false);
Demo
If the string is actually "Dog\nCat\nHamster"
then just do
"Dog\nCat\nHamster".split('\n');//returns ["Dog", "Cat", "Hamster"]
For a TextArea try this
myTextArea.value.split('\n'); // it will return desired output.
Where myTextArea
is the TextArea you can get using getElement
.
I think the best solution for a textarea
input is using the match()
function of javascript like this:
var words = []
$('textarea').on('blur', function(){
words = $(this).val().match(/\w+/g)
alert(words)
})
here a fiddle of it working.
This doesn't need for the words to be in different lines.