How do I destructure strings in JS using a special character?

Question

I want day,month and year values from the value in an object.

{myDate : '12/31/2020'}

I want to do something like this:

d,m,y = mydate('/')

so that d= 12, m=31 , y = 2020 and they are separated using the '/' character

Is there a way to do something like this in JS?

`let [d, m, y] = '12/31/2020'.split('/')` good enough for you ? — svarog, Sep 26 '21 at 16:49
A simple [Google search](//google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+js+split+string+and+destructure) finds many results. MDN has documentation on [destructuring syntax](//developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment) and [String methods](//developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String#instance_methods). Please see [How much research effort is expected of Stack Overflow users?](//meta.stackoverflow.com/q/261592/4642212). — Sebastian Simon, Sep 26 '21 at 16:55

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:53

4

Split the string and destructure the resulting array:

const myDate = {myDate : '12/31/2020'}
const [d,m,y] = myDate.myDate.split('/')
console.log(d,m,y)

answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:49

0

const [d,m,y] = '12/31/2020'.split("/")

console.log(d,m,y)

answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:49

Alan Omar

The same answer is posted above. – Kartikey Sep 26 '21 at 18:00
@Kartikey i answered before him. – Alan Omar Sep 26 '21 at 18:10
Also, the question has a possible duplicate. – Kartikey Sep 26 '21 at 18:12
@Kartikey spot on. – Alan Omar Sep 26 '21 at 18:13
@Kartikey, please be careful when reporting duplicate answers. It's entirely possible that both users were typing at the same time, or that an earlier answer can appear in a review queue. – ChrisGPT was on strike Sep 27 '21 at 00:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:51

0

Use

mydate = "12/30/2021";
var arr = mydate.split("/");
//arr[0]=12
//arr[1] is day

answered Sep 26 '21 at 16:51

Subhashis Pandey

I guess the above posted answers were sufficient. As the user mentioned in the question that he/she wants to `destructure` the elements and not `access` them – Kartikey Sep 26 '21 at 17:57

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