Unable to split parm in email script

[dauger]

Hello devs!

I am having trouble with parm2 in an email script I am writing.

var parm = event.parm2;
var splitParm = parm.split('~');

Using that code I had thought splitParm would be delimited by ~ but when I print splitParm the data is delimited by ;

Am I going about this the wrong way? How can I have parm2 use ~ as a delimiter?

Let me know if there's any other information needed.

[Juhi Poddar]

Hello @dauger 

Could you please share what value you have in parm2?

For split("~") to work, the actual string must contain the ~ character as the delimiter.

If your data in parm2 is separated by ; , then using split("~") will not change the string because the ~ character does not exist in it. That is why the data still appears to be ; separated.

In that case, you would need to use:

var splitParm = parm.split(';');

or ensure that the value being passed to parm2 contains ~ as the delimiter.

Hope this helps!

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Thank You
Juhi Poddar

[dauger]

Hello @Juhi Poddar,

Then that is my problem! parm2 is delimited by ;

I thought split makes the data be delimited with whatever you pass into split.

That said, how can I ensure parm2 is delimited by ~ ...?

[Juhi Poddar]

Hello @dauger 

You can try this:

var parm = event.parm2;

// convert ; delimiter to ~
var updatedParm = parm.split(';').join('~');

// now split using ~
var splitParm = updatedParm.split('~');

or

var parm = event.parm2;
parm = parm.replace(/;/g, '~');
var splitParm = parm.split('~');

Hope this helps!

Thank You
Juhi Poddar

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi @dauger 

Can you put  log/print   parm and splitParm and share the log.