I'm trying to remove " " from an array inside a string.
var test = "['a']"
var test1 = "['a','b']"
Expected Output:
var test_arr = ['a']
var test1_arr = ['a','b']
I tried replacing, didn't work
var test_arr = test.replace(/\"/, '');
2 Answers
I see two ways to accomplish that.
JSON.parse('["a","b"]')note that the values need to be in double-quotes."['a','b']".replace(/[['\]]/g, '').split(',')note that you need to split after replacing the unwanted chars
Both yield an array containing the original strings.
Comments
You can simply convert the single quotes inside the strings to double quotes first to convert the string to a valid JSON, and then we can use JSON.parse to get the required array like:
var test = "['a']"
var test1 = "['a','b']"
var parseStr = str => JSON.parse(str.replace(/'/g, '"'))
var test_arr = parseStr(test)
var test1_arr = parseStr(test1)
console.log(test_arr)
console.log(test1_arr)