Javascript: Replace colon and comma characters

Question

Relative newcomer to Javascript and a bit stuck with the following so would greatly appreciate some help...

I have a string made up of a list of categories and keywords which might appear like:

Category A:Keyword A, Category B:, Category C: Keyword B

The problem is displaying a category when there is no keyword - how can I do a Find and Replace to swap instances of :, with just ,?

I already use the following to insert a space after the comma:

cats = cats.replace(/,/g,", ");

but copying and modifying with the extra colon seems to break it...

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 03 '12 at 12:40

6

Use:

cats = cats.replace(/:\s*,/g,", ");

answered Sep 03 '12 at 12:40

xdazz

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '12 at 12:42

I think you should use arrays:

var arr="Category A:Keyword A, Category B:, Category C:Keyword B".split(', ');
for(var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
   arr[i]=arr[i].split(':');
}

Then, arr becomes [["Category A", "Keyword A"], ["Category B", ""], ["Category C", "Keyword B"]]

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