Comments on: Parse a string using JavaScript

By: Christopher Jason

Christopher Jason — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:02:16 +0000

Haha thanks Norman for spotting another typo. In my example, I meant to set aPosition=text.indexOf(“a”), not “cat” as I mistakenly typed. I’ve corrected the example. I really needs to stop writing these late at night.

By: Norman

Norman — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:35:56 +0000

var text = “cat”;
aPosition = text.indexOf(“cat”);

This actually returns a value of 0, because the variable text contains only a single string. If the variable text was an array…

var text=new Array();
text[text.length]=”cat”;

Then the variable text wouldd be “cat”, but text.length would be 1.

By: Christopher Jason

Christopher Jason — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:23:00 +0000

Thanks Todd for catching the typo. I’ve corrected the article.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:59:23 +0000

JavaScript’s indexOf method returns -1 if no match is found, not 0 like stated. Just wanted to let you know since this was the top Google hit for my search.