Parse String with Jquery

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I have got a simple select menu containing all countries with their city's listed in respective option value. The value also contains some other data, for instance Canada has value +1|}|22|X while United States has this +1|}|128|X||{|58$Abilene#|{|59$Akron#|{|1$Alabama#|{|2$Alaska#|{|60$Albany#|....

I need to fill another select menu on change of country select menu. I can't figure out how can i parse each city listed in the country's value.

jQuery doesn't have any string manipulation methods, you'll have to use javascript methods to do it. — user400654
– user400654, Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 21:48
start by looking where you might get same data in simpler format — charlietfl
– charlietfl, Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 21:50
@charlietfl .. ;/ .. looking for some country-city database. — Adil Shaikh
– Adil Shaikh, Commented Apr 3, 2013 at 21:55

Hanlet Escaño · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-03 21:58:27Z

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Maybe try this, idk, that data was kind of weird:

$('#country_residence').on('change', function () {
    var cities = $(this).val().split('$');
    $("#cities option").remove();
    for(var i = 1;i<cities.length;i++)
    {
     var city = String(cities[i]);
        if(city.indexOf("#")>-1)
            city = city.substring(0,city.indexOf("#"));


        $("#cities").append("<option>" + city + "</option>");
    }
});

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/EyVuS/3/

answered Apr 3, 2013 at 21:58

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Moby's Stunt Double · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-03 21:58:48Z

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If there was absolutely no other way to get cleaner data? I'd do some (albeit somewhat brain-melting) regular expression matching on the server side to filter the information and then parse it into a usable list for use with JSON.

I, for one, would not attempt to do this on the client side.

answered Apr 3, 2013 at 21:58

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