Remove multiple square brackets using replace() - javascript

Question

I have a response from the server that is like this:

users: ["beautykarttworld","sbdanwar","haiirfavs","show__tanz","kinjal_suhagiya_9999","_adultmafia_"]

It's a string not an array like it appear, since I need an array to work on, how I can remove the square backets and then the commas to obtain a normal array? I've tried in this way:

var data = ["beautykarttworld","sbdanwar","haiirfavs","show__tanz","kinjal_suhagiya_9999","_adultmafia_"]
data.replace('[', '').replace(']', '').split(',');

but chaining two .replace() functions and a split() isn't the best solution. Can anyone halp me?

Andrew Arthur · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-18 03:46:24Z

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In your example data is an array.

However, if data was a string you would convert it to an array like this:

var arr = JSON.parse(data);

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nukiko12 Over a year ago

I was thinking that it was a string that was returned inside the JSON response. I'm a newbie developer. Thanks for the help.

Trushil Patel · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-18 04:23:07Z

In short, Here you have provided data in normal string formate not in JSON string formate

 
var data = 'users: ["beautykarttworld","sbdanwar","haiirfavs","show__tanz","kinjal_suhagiya_9999","_adultmafia_"]'
 
var squareBracketData = data.substr(data.indexOf("["))    
var array = JSON.parse(squareBracketData)
console.log(array)

Some personal advice, Try to send JSON stringify data from the server so it will make your life easy

Example:

 
var users =["beautykarttworld","sbdanwar","haiirfavs","show__tanz","kinjal_suhagiya_9999","_adultmafia_"]

// Stringify data

var data = JSON.stringify({users})
console.log("Data")
console.log(data)
 
// retrieve data from string
 
var parsedData = JSON.parse(data)
var parsedUsers = parsedData.users
console.log("parsedUsers")
console.log(parsedUsers)

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