storing certain form value in var

[Jaynesh]

Hello

lets say my form value is

&hello john &bye jacob &goodafternoon

How can I store all the values starting with & in a var?

Regards

[paul_wilkins]

How can I store all the values starting with & in a var?

You can use a regular expression that gets all of the characters that start with an ampersand.

var matches = field.value.match(/(&\S+)/g);

[Jaynesh]

Hi thank you for your response.

Yes but how do I store that in a var.

for example If the form value is &hello jacob
How do I store &hello in a var?

Regards

[paul_wilkins]

Yes but how do I store that in a var.

The example that I gave stores the values in a var called matches as an array, such as:
['&hello', '&bye', '&goodafternoon']

If you don't want the ampersand included in the string, you can match /&(\S+)/g instead of /(&\S+)/g

You can use the standard array-index notation to retrieve one of the string values from that array.