what is the reg exp to do this?

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I want to create a regular expression that will take a single input
name field and save the first and last names to two separate js vars.
The criteria for determining what is the separation would be the first
occurrence of a space (ascii code = 32). However, note that a user
may only enter one word or nothing at all. If the DOM id for the
field I want to parse is "nameField", how would I do this?

Thanks, - Dave

[Randy Webb]

la***********@zipmail.com said the following on 5/23/2007 5:03 PM:

Hi,

I want to create a regular expression that will take a single input
name field and save the first and last names to two separate js vars.
The criteria for determining what is the separation would be the first
occurrence of a space (ascii code = 32). However, note that a user
may only enter one word or nothing at all. If the DOM id for the
field I want to parse is "nameField", how would I do this?

Why are you making it harder than it has to be?

var theNames = refToFormElement.split(' ');

If theNames has a length of 1, then there was no space.
If theNames has a length of 2, then there was a space.
If theNames has a length 2, then there was more than one space.

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[scripts.contact]

On May 23, 3:03 pm, "[e-mail]"
<[e-mail]:

Hi,

I want to create a regular expression that will take a single input
name field and save the first and last names to two separate js vars.
The criteria for determining what is the separation would be the first
occurrence of a space (ascii code = 32). However, note that a user
may only enter one word or nothing at all. If the DOM id for the
field I want to parse is "nameField", how would I do this?

Thanks, - Dave

var fullname=document.getElementById("nameField");
var firstSpace=fullname.indexOf(' ');
WScript.Echo(
"First Name:"+fullname.substr(0,firstSpace)
+"\nLast Name:"+fullname.substr(firstSpace+1)
)

[scripts.contact]

On May 23, 4:28 pm, "scripts.contact" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

var fullname=document.getElementById("nameField");
var firstSpace=fullname.indexOf(' ');

WScript.Echo(
"First Name:"+fullname.substr(0,firstSpace)
+"\nLast Name:"+fullname.substr(firstSpace+1)
)

alert(
"First Name:"+fullname.substr(0,firstSpace)
+"\nLast Name:"+fullname.substr(firstSpace+1)
)

[Michael White]

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I want to create a regular expression that will take a single input
name field and save the first and last names to two separate js vars.
The criteria for determining what is the separation would be the first
occurrence of a space (ascii code = 32). However, note that a user
may only enter one word or nothing at all. If the DOM id for the
field I want to parse is "nameField", how would I do this?

Thanks, - Dave

A= String.split(/\s+/);AA=A.length;
firstName=AA<2?"":A[0];
lastName=AA==1?A[0]:AA>1?A.slice(1).join(" "):"Empty";
Mick