need help on a regular expression of text OR text OR etc...

[mike]

Hi,

I have text in a field coming from a database. The text has various
forms such as:

text1
text1 or text2
text1 or text2 or text3
text1; or text2
text1; or text2; or text3
etc...

how can I parse this with a reg ex? I tried this:

(.+);? or

but it only captures 1 submatch (text1) and only if theres an "or"
after it

I'd like to get 1 submatch for each piece of text separated by the
"or", just the text itself if there is no or.

Anyone know how to do it?

 

[julie lawrence]

Hi,

I have text in a field coming from a database. The text has various
forms such as:

text1
text1 or text2
text1 or text2 or text3
text1; or text2
text1; or text2; or text3
etc...

how can I parse this with a reg ex? I tried this:

(.+);? or

but it only captures 1 submatch (text1) and only if theres an "or"
after it

I'd like to get 1 submatch for each piece of text separated by the
"or", just the text itself if there is no or.

Anyone know how to do it?

I would get rid of the ';' first, if they're not important
sText = sText.replace(/;/g, ''); // get rid of the ';'s

then split the text into an array on the "or" word, i.e.
var myArray = sText.split(' or ');

cheers,
Julie