How to hide everything after a dollar sign in a String JQuery

Question

I have a string like this:

string="Awesome Option +$399.99";

I want to remove the +$399.99 (and any other pricing details) from the string, how would you do that?

Oh and the string could also possibly look like this:

string="#4 Cool Option +$23.99"

answer found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2555794/how-to-use-split-with-jquery — ERR0, Sep 22 '11 at 20:33

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:30

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var text = 'Awesome Option +$399.99';
text = text.substring(0, text.indexOf('+$'));
// text is "Awesome Option "

answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:30

Matt Ball

I like that you've avoided regular expressions, but this would truncate strings such as `Awesome Option +$399.99 More text +$5.99`. – Jason McCreary Sep 22 '11 at 20:44
@Jason your point isn't invalid, per se, but handling such strings wasn't specified as a requirement in the OP. – Matt Ball Sep 22 '11 at 21:00
Possibly implied: *I want to remove the +$399.99 (**and any other pricing details**) from the string*. Regardless, good answer +1. – Jason McCreary Sep 22 '11 at 22:27

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:31

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You would do: string.replace(/\s*\+\$.*$/, ''). Note that this does not depend on jQuery.

This also removes white space in front of the +$. If the + is optionally there, you'd use string.replace(/\s*\+?\$.*$/, '').

answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:31

Augustus Kling

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:32

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var originalString = "Awesome Option +$399.99"
var truncatedString = originalString.split("+")[0]

Using the same logic you could extract just the price this way, or both at the same time.

answered Sep 22 '11 at 20:32

David

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