Need help with JavaScript String substr().

Annie10 · ‎05-25-2023

Hello,

I have a string contains "abc\1234"

I would like to extract from the back slash and get the number only such as "1234"

Can someone please help? Thank you

Arun_S1 · ‎06-05-2023

@Annie10 Please continue to use double back slashes, generally \ has a special meaning example: \n is for the next line and hence scripting languages doesn't allow you to type one single backslash and to cut the meaning of backslash you have to use double slashes.

Conclusion is \\ is equivalent of \ in a string.

Please use the same line of code and it should work fine.

return source.u_name.slice(source.u_name.indexOf('\\')+1);

Thanks!!

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Arun_S1 · ‎06-06-2023

@Annie10 I believe you are trying to import data using import set, please see my excel sheet and the result using the same code

Excel sheet with the data:

Transform Map (Field map updating the incident description):

Updates on the incident:

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Annie10 · ‎06-07-2023

Thank you so much for continuing provide support.

Annie10 · ‎06-07-2023

@Arun_S1

What is +1 means?

Arun_S1 · ‎06-08-2023

@Annie10 indexOf will return the position of the \ symbol, +1 is to instruct the system to pick up the string after the \ symbol.

Drisya Nair · ‎05-25-2023

Hello @Annie10

Please try the below script.

var string = "abc\1234";

var newString = string.match(/(\d+)/g)

gs.print(newString);

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