Splitting pasted text in prompt box or UI edittext

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July 25, 2022
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I'm trying to allow the user to paste in some lines from Excel into a Prompt() or EditText UI element. Then split it up by the tabs to generate an array of the data pasted. This method of dealing with text data works fine when I'm reading from a text file on disk. However when I try to replicate with pasted data it fails. When I paste the data into a text editor the tabs are intact but the split() function does not seem to recognize them. Here is a piece of text code.

var inText = prompt("Paste the text", "paste here");
alert(inText);
var broken =  inText.split("    ");
alert(broken[2]);

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Correct answer Dan Ebberts

Try this:

var tabChar = String.fromCharCode(9);
var inText = prompt("Paste the text", "paste here");
alert(inText);
var splitText =  inText.split(tabChar);
alert(splitText.length);

Byron Nash - INSPAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks guys. Both solutions worked.

Dan Ebberts

Correct answer

Community Expert

Try this:

var tabChar = String.fromCharCode(9);
var inText = prompt("Paste the text", "paste here");
alert(inText);
var splitText =  inText.split(tabChar);
alert(splitText.length);

Mylenium

Legend

Perhaps you need to designate the tab with its \t escape character or insert some regex.

Mylenium

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