How do I change the value of an appended string?

Question

I am grabbing the date of a blog post from a page on a site and displaying it on another page on the same site.

The date reads 2/22/18 on the initial page and the jQuery code below successfully strips it to just "2" and appends it to the div with the "box-month-1" class on the second page. However, I want to change the value of that "2" to "FEB", but I can't get it to work. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer! Thanks in advance.

HTML

<div class="box-month-1"></div>

jQuery

$.get('/blog.html', function(data){   

  var s = $(data).find('.blog-date .date-text').text().split('/').slice(0,1).join('/');
  $('.box-month-1').append(s);

  var boxOne = $('.box-month-1').text();

  var jan = "JAN";
  var feb = "FEB";
  var mar = "MAR";

  if (boxOne.equals('2')) {
    $('.box-month').replaceWith(feb);
  }

});

Possible duplicate of [Get month name from Date](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1643320/get-month-name-from-date) — Sebastian Simon, Mar 28 '18 at 18:35
Let me see if I understand: you want to get the month part from the date, then append the initials of the month to the `.box-month-1`, right? — Phiter, Mar 28 '18 at 18:39
@Phiter No, the code already does that. I want to change the appended number value of the month to text. So make "2" = "FEB". — Weebs, Mar 28 '18 at 18:46

Supun Praneeth · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-28T18:50:27.570

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Try this:

      $.get('/blog.html', function(data){   

      var s = $(data).find('.blog-date .date-text').text().split('/').slice(0,1).join('/');
      $('.box-month-1').append(s);

      var boxOne = $('.box-month-1').text();

      var months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]; 

        $('.box-month-1').html(months[parseInt(boxOne)+1]); 

    });

edited Mar 28 '18 at 18:50

answered Mar 28 '18 at 18:43

Supun Praneeth

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parseInt(boxOne) + 1 – Mudassir Hasan Mar 28 '18 at 18:48
@Mudassir yeah i forgot – Supun Praneeth Mar 28 '18 at 18:49
@MudassirHasan I changed the "+ 1" to "- 1" to get the correct month. – Weebs Mar 28 '18 at 18:56
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Thank you, @SupunFictionPraneeth and @Mudassair! Just what I needed. – Weebs Mar 28 '18 at 18:57

How do I change the value of an appended string?

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