Add space after comma in an array.

[mommy]

I have a string that will be dynamic but will look like this: '111111111,221212121,123214541,455554845' (etc)
What I need to do is add a space after each comma, the length of the numbers after each comma will always be 9. So I need the above string to look like this.
'111111111, 221212121, 123214541, 455554845'
Actually, the string comes in as such" '012122221 122222215 455445544' What I need is to add a comma and leave one space after the comma. So the result should be.
'012122221, 122222215, 455445544'

Right now, with the code I have the result is '012122221,122222215,455445544' Notice the space after comma is gone.
Here is the code I am using




<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>

var strNIINList;

function LTrim(str)
/***
PURPOSE: Remove leading blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to LTrim

RETVAL: An LTrimmed string!
***/
{
var whitespace = new String(&quot; ,;|\t\n\r&quot;

var s = new String(str);

if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(0)) != -1) {
// We have a string with leading blank(s)...

var j=0, i = s.length;

// Iterate from the far left of string until we
// don't have any more whitespace...
while (j < i && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(j)) != -1)
j++;


// Get the substring from the first non-whitespace
// character to the end of the string...
s = s.substring(j, i);
}

return s;
}

function RTrim(str)
/***
PURPOSE: Remove trailing blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to RTrim

RETVAL: An RTrimmed string!
***/
{
// We don't want to trip JUST spaces, but also tabs,
// line feeds, etc. Add anything else you want to
// &quot;trim&quot; here in Whitespace
var whitespace = new String(&quot; ,;|\t\n\r&quot;

var s = new String(str);

if (whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(s.length-1)) != -1) {
// We have a string with trailing blank(s)...

var i = s.length - 1; // Get length of string

// Iterate from the far right of string until we
// don't have any more whitespace...
while (i >= 0 && whitespace.indexOf(s.charAt(i)) != -1)
i--;


// Get the substring from the front of the string to
// where the last non-whitespace character is...
s = s.substring(0, i+1);
}

return s;
}


function trim(str)
/***
PURPOSE: Remove trailing and leading blanks from our string.
IN: str - the string we want to Trim

RETVAL: A Trimmed string!
***/
{
return RTrim(LTrim(str));
}

function IsDelimiter(TheString){
//alert(escape(TheString));
//if (TheString == &quot;,&quot; || TheString == &quot;;&quot; || TheString == &quot; &quot; || TheString == &quot;|&quot{
if (escape(TheString) == &quot;%2C&quot; || escape(TheString) == &quot;%3B&quot; || TheString == &quot; &quot; || escape(TheString) == &quot;%0D&quot; || escape(TheString) == &quot;%0A&quot; || escape(TheString) == &quot;%7C&quot {
return (true);
}
else{
return (false);
}
}


function ValidateNIIN(TheNIIN){
if(TheNIIN.length != 9 && TheNIIN.length != 0){
alert(&quot;NIIN &quot; + TheNIIN + &quot; is &quot; + TheNIIN.length + &quot; characters long. It needs to be 9 characters to be valid&quot;
}
else{
strNIINList = strNIINList + TheNIIN + &quot;,&quot;;
}
}

function Check(TheForm){
//todo:
// check each NIIN for length = 9
// valid delimiters are space, comma, semicolon,pipeline
// could be NIINs entered with no delimeter
//
//loop through the string until we come across a valid delimiter
var strString;
var intStartPos;
var intLastDelimiterPos;

strNIINList = &quot;&quot;
strString = trim(TheForm.MultNiin1.value)
//alert(&quot;String Length: &quot; + strString.length);
alert(escape(strString));
intStartPos = 0;

//alert(strString.substring(6,8));

for(x = 0;x <= strString.length - 1;x++){
//alert(x);
if(x == (strString.length - 1)){
ValidateNIIN(strString.substring(intStartPos,x+1));
}

if(IsDelimiter(strString.substring(x,x+1))){
//alert(&quot;Current Position: &quot; + x);
//alert(&quot;Delimiter found at position: &quot; + x);
//alert(&quot;StartPos: &quot; + intStartPos);
//alert(&quot;EndPos: &quot; + x);
ValidateNIIN(strString.substring(intStartPos,x));
intLastDelimiterPos = x;
intStartPos = x + 1;
}
}

//alert(strNIINList);
var arrayofstrings;
var newarray;

newarray = new Array();

arrayofstrings = strNIINList.split(&quot;,&quot;
//alert(arrayofstrings.length)
//alert(arrayofstrings[1]);
y = 0;
for(x=0;x< arrayofstrings.length;x++){
//alert(&quot;here&quot;
//alert((arrayofstrings[x]));
if(arrayofstrings[x] != &quot;&quot{
//alert(&quot;here2&quot;
newarray[y] = arrayofstrings[x];
y++;
}
}

//alert(newarray);
TheForm.txtniinhidden1.value = newarray
return (true);
}

</script>




<form method=&quot;POST&quot; action=&quot;Test.asp&quot; language=&quot;JavaScript&quot; name=&quot;FrontPage_Form4&quot; onsubmit=&quot;return Check(this)&quot;>

<% End If %>
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;System_Level&quot; value=&quot;INDIVIDUAL&quot;><div align=&quot;left&quot;><table border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot;>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<TR>

<td align=middle> <TEXTAREA id=MultNiin1 name=MultNiin1 rows=20></TEXTAREA>
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; id=&quot;txtniinhidden1&quot; name=&quot;txtniinhidden1&quot;>
</td></TR>
<TR>
<td align=&quot;middle&quot; class=&quot;redfonttwelve&quot;>
<P><INPUT id=submit1 type=submit value=Submit name=submit1></P>

</P>
</td></TR></table></div></form></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Thanks for your help,
moom

 

[trollacious]

Here's something that will do what you want with the original string. Regular expressions will probably do it more easily, but I haven't worked enough with those to give you an answer:

function convertstring(onestring)
{
var stringarr=onestring.split(' '); //this is a space character
var newstring=stringarr[0];

for (var ni=1;ni<stringarr.length;ni++)
{
newstring += ', ' + stringarr[ni];
}

}

 

[jemminger]

trollacious' suggestion will work, or here's a regex solution:
[tt]
newString = sourceString.replace(/\,/g,', ',);
[/tt] =========================================================
if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[mommy]

Jemminger, I am not familiar with regexps but I tried your suggestion and I am getting 'object expected' error. THis is what I did.
I would appreciate your help. Thanks much.

var arrayofstrings;
var newarray;
var newstring;

newarray = new Array();

arrayofstrings = strNIINList.split(&quot;,&quot;
//alert(arrayofstrings.length)
//alert(arrayofstrings[1]);
y = 0;
for(x=0;x< arrayofstrings.length;x++){
//alert(&quot;here&quot;
//alert((arrayofstrings[x]));
if(arrayofstrings[x] != &quot;&quot{
//alert(&quot;here2&quot;
newarray[y] = arrayofstrings[x];
y++;
}
}


newstring = newarray.replace(/\,/g,', ',);
TheForm.txthidden1.value = newarray
return (true);
}

 

[jemminger]

sorry, there's an extra comma:
replace(/\,/g,', ',);


should be
replace(/\,/g,', ');
=========================================================
if (!succeed) try();
-jeff