I am already trying for over an hour and cant figure out the right way to do it. I have this Regex:
const search = /("Response)\s+\d+\s+(of)\s+\d+(":)\s+/g;
I have this string:
{"Response 1 of 2": {"Name": "Jouny", "Class": "TR23", "Message Type": "Offer", "ID Identifier": "19256", "Address": "hjfhfgjhjhj"}, "Response 2 of 2": {"Name": "Sarah", "Class": "BHT56", "Message Type": "Alarm", "ID Identifier": "89756767", "Address": "oplkdhdggd"}}
I would like to have a result like this:
[
{"Name": "Jouny", "Class": "TR23", "Message Type": "Offer", "ID Identifier": "19256",
"Address": "hjfhfgjhjhj"},
{"Name": "Sarah", "Class": "BHT56", "Message Type": "Alarm", "ID Identifier": "89756767",
"Address": "oplkdhdggd"}
]
my code:
var lines = results.toString().split(/\n/);
lines.forEach(function (item) {
if (item.indexOf(myData) > 0) {
var json = item.slice(item.indexOf(script) + script.length + 2).replace(PRINTABLE_CHAR, '');
var jsonMatch = json.split(json.match(search));
var result = jsonMatch.substr(0, jsonMatch.lastIndexOf('}')).replace(PRINTABLE_CHAR, '');
try {
data = JSON.parse(result);
} catch (e) {
console.log('ERROR');
}
}
});
You can achieve the same result using Object.values
const initialObject = {"Response 1 of 2": {"Name": "Jouny", "Class": "TR23", "Message Type": "Offer", "ID Identifier": "19256", "Address": "hjfhfgjhjhj"}, "Response 2 of 2": {"Name": "Sarah", "Class": "BHT56", "Message Type": "Alarm", "ID Identifier": "89756767", "Address": "oplkdhdggd"}}
const resultObject = Object.values(initialObject);
console.log(resultObject);This issue can be solved without regex. You can parse the first string as JSON using JSON.parse(string), then you can get the list of keys using Object.keys(json) and then do a forEach and push it to a list, which will get you what you want without having to deal with regex. I will show the code below
let string = '{"Response 1 of 2": {"Name": "Jouny", "Class": "TR23", "Message Type": "Offer", "ID Identifier": "19256", "Address": "hjfhfgjhjhj"}, "Response 2 of 2": {"Name": "Sarah", "Class": "BHT56", "Message Type": "Alarm", "ID Identifier": "89756767", "Address": "oplkdhdggd"}}'
let list = [] //this will be the list that we will return at the end
let data = JSON.parse(string) //parse the data into json
Object.keys(data).forEach(key => list.push(data[key])) //get the keys and iterate through it
return list //return the list
This should be a much better alternative to using regex. Regex was not made for what you are trying to do.
EDIT: Ah, follow @callback 's advice. Using object.values() would be a much better solution.