Splitting Multiline

[goochg79]

Hi,

We have a multiline field on a item which we need to split into the indvidual lines and process these in a JS Script.

Is it possible to convert the multiline into an array, we have tried lines.split ('\n'); and also using match but neither have worked.

[staceyrocheleau]

First convert your variable into a string by changing the first line:

var mylines = '' + current.variables.myLines;

This should work. I tested it out in my instance and it was failing to do anything until this was converted to a string.

[poyntzj · Accepted solution]

I use this in a recent bit of code.   reads a multiline variable.

strUserList = srigr.variables.user_list.toString();

arrUsers=strUserList.match(/[^\r\n]+/g);

[goochg79]

Julian that is perfect, I hadn't passed the field toString(); which is why this had failed in the past.

Thanks for your help you are a life saver.

[Mike Moody]

Keep in mind that sometimes toString() is not an available function, depending on the object type. In these cases you'll either want to use Stacey's suggestion of var mylines = '' + current.variables.myLines; or a direct string conversion with var mylines = String(current.variables.myLines); - Personally I like to use the latter one whenever I want to reliably get a string.

Mike