Split all characters in a string with no delimiter into an array with lotus notes

Question

Im trying to split a sting variable into an array with each character in its own position in the array, but cant seem to get this to work

 function test() {
    var strString = "thisIsTheString";
    var test = @Explode(strString, "");
    var strReturn = "";

    for (var i = 0; i < @Length(test); i++) {
        strReturn += test[i] + "<br/>";
    }

    return strReturn;
}

You have tagged this question Lotusscript but your code snippet is not Lotusscript but rather server-side JavaScript :-) — Per Henrik Lausten, Jul 10 '13 at 12:39

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '13 at 13:32

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The simplest way would be to use split function by passing empty string to it. For e.g.

var str = "this is a string";
var arr = str.split("");

answered Jul 10 '13 at 13:32

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Cool, didn't know that. That is the better answer of course. I guess I was too long with LotusScript... :) – Knut Herrmann Jul 10 '13 at 14:17

Knut Herrmann · Answer 2 · 2013-07-10T12:57:06.393

@Explode uses as delimiters space, comma and semicolon if second parameter is empty. That doesn't help you in your case. Just use "normal" string functions like substring():

function test() {
    var strString = "thisIsTheString";
    var strReturn = "";

    for (var i = 0; i < strString.length; i++) {
        strReturn += strString.substring(i, i+1) + "<br/>";
    }

    return strReturn;
}

In case you really need an array of characters then code would look like this:

var strString = "thisIsTheString";
var arrayReturn = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < strString.length; i++) {
    arrayReturn[i] = strString.substring(i, i+1);
}

Split all characters in a string with no delimiter into an array with lotus notes

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