Get everything in string after a single comma

Question

I have some problem with my string, the variable name is accountcode. I want only part of the string. I want everything in the string which is after the first ,, excluding any extra space after the comma. For example:

accountcode = "xxxx, tes";

accountcode = "xxxx, hello";

Then I want to output like tes and hello.

I tried:

var s = 'xxxx, hello';
s = s.substring(0, s.indexOf(','));
document.write(s);

So, just to clarify, `accountcode` is an string with multiple words separated by commas? — Shidersz, Nov 15 '18 at 04:11
Do you just want the text after the *last* comma? Where `xxxx` could be anything? — Spencer Wieczorek, Nov 15 '18 at 04:12
I'm all for marking duplicates. But this one misses by a 6'2" ballerina split — Abana Clara, Nov 15 '18 at 04:22
Weird duplicate vote... Either pick [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/650022/how-do-i-split-a-string-with-multiple-separators-in-javascript) or [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858121/convert-comma-separated-string-to-array) as dupe. — KarelG, Nov 15 '18 at 07:54

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 15 '18 at 05:13

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Just use split with trim.

var accountcode = "xxxx, tes";
var result= accountcode.split(',')[1].trim();
console.log(result);

edited Nov 15 '18 at 05:13

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Why include jquery? – dotconnor Nov 15 '18 at 04:12
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This will error when there is no comma. And may not work as expected if there are many commas. – Spencer Wieczorek Nov 15 '18 at 04:14
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waaa thank you very much – senaa Nov 15 '18 at 04:14

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 19 '18 at 02:03

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You can use string.lastIndexOf() to pull the last word out without making a new array:

let accountcode = "xxxx, hello";
let lastCommaIndex = accountcode.lastIndexOf(',')
let word = accountcode.slice(lastCommaIndex+1).trim()
console.log(word)

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Mamun · Answer 3 · 2018-11-15T08:06:50.667

You can use String.prototype.split():

The split() method splits a String object into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings, using a specified separator string to determine where to make each split.

You can use length property of the generated array as the last index to access the string item. Finally trim() the string:

var s = 'xxxx, hello';
s = s.split(',');
s = s[s.length - 1].trim();
document.write(s);

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You can split the String on the comma.

var s = 'xxxx, hello';
var parts = s.split(',');
console.log(parts[1]);

If you don't want any leading or trailing spaces, use trim.

var s = 'xxxx, hello';
var parts = s.split(',');
console.log(parts[1].trim());

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 15 '18 at 04:19

accountcode = "xxxx, hello";
let macthed=accountcode.match(/\w+$/)
    if(matched){
       document.write(matched[0])
    }

here \w+ means any one or more charecter and $ meand end of string so \w+$ means get all the character upto end of the sting so here ' ' space is not a whole character so it started after space upto $

the if statement is required because if no match found than macthed will be null , and it found it will be an array and first element will be your match

Get everything in string after a single comma

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