Hi,

I wonder if I can ask for some help again - I need to parse some text which I receive from my Kivor server - It will send me album info for 10 albums at a time, and I need to break this down into individual albums.

The code that I am using is as follows;

var search_name = /<NAME>(((\w|\s|\%|\$|\"|\'|\~|\!|\.|\\|\,|\/|[|]|\(|\))+))</g;

var name_result = full_output[0].match(search_name);

which matches the text after the <NAME> header through to <

The problem I have is that if I omit the 'g' global switch on the end I get everything between the <NAME> and <, but as I want to search multiple times I need the 'g' switch and the output is something like;

<NAME>The Beatles<

I know I can parse this output again, but is there a more elegant way to do this in the original search ?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Mike.

I'm not good at parsing regexp myself. What exactly is the Kivor server returning? Why don't you use some sort of .split("") to create an array of the 10 albums?

Perhaps an example of the Kivor output, and an explanation of what you're trying to do with the ten album names might help...

- Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply. The Kivor returns up to 10 albums in a single string in roughly the following format

...<NAME>1<ARTIST>The Beatles<GENRE>Rock<ID>667<NAME>A kind of Magic<ARTIST>Queen<GENRE>Rock<ID>22<NAME>............

What I am doing is parsing out each of the fields and then writing each to an Array to allow me to search on whichever field I want. Not sure whether split would work in this instance or not.

Thanks,

Mike.

Hmm - just realised that my post is not displaying correctly as the browser must be reading the tags - how do i post text so that the tag won't be read ?

Thanks,

Mike.

You must escape less-than, greater than, etc which this site interprets as HTML markup.

Thanks Lyndel - post updated accordingly.

Not sure there's a more elegant way. Not being a regexp expert myself, I would probably split on the first field in the album and then loop through the resulting array and break it up from there.
If the fields from each album come back in a known format each time, (i.e. no fields omitted and same order) you can probably do a "replace" to remove the tags, leaving just a ">" for instance, and then split the record (for each album) on ">" in the loop.

I agree, though, sounds like there's gotta be a better way...