Javascript to substring hours minutes and seconds

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Please help me to substring and separate the below string in three variables using javascript.

var str="HH:MM:SS";

variable 1 is HH variable 2 is MM variable 3 is SS

Thanks

And google next time! http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substring.asp — Rene Pot, Mar 01 '12 at 13:26
[split strings in javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=javascript+split+string+hours+minutes&submit=search) — Michael Berkowski, Mar 01 '12 at 13:27
@Topener: A) Part of SO's goal is to be the top hit on Google searches, so "google next time" is not a useful suggestion. B) w3schools is a truly *rubbish* resource, recommend MDC or, of course, the specification (though the language is...obtuse). — T.J. Crowder, Mar 01 '12 at 13:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '12 at 13:28

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The simplest way is split (specification | MDC):

var str = "HH:MM:SS";
var parts = str.split(":");
console.log(parts[0]); // "HH"
console.log(parts[1]); // "MM"
console.log(parts[2]); // "SS"

answered Mar 01 '12 at 13:28

T.J. Crowder

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 23 '12 at 14:43

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var splits = str.split(":");
if(splits.length == 3) {
    //is valid
    var hour = splits[0];
    var min = splits[1];
    var sec = splits[2];
}

edited Jul 23 '12 at 14:43

merv

answered Mar 01 '12 at 13:28

silly

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