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copied!<p>I created a function to do this.</p> <pre><code>var text="adsf [name]Victor[/name] dummytext [name]Elliot[/name] asdf [name]Jake[/name] asdf [foo]bar[/foo]"; alert( readTags(text,'name') ); //Victor,Elliot,Jake alert( readTags(text,'foo') ); //bar </code></pre> <p>but now I like to implement a function that receive a string like this</p> <pre><code>[person] [name]jake[/name] [age]12[/age] [/person] </code></pre> <p>and return a object like this</p> <pre><code>var object={}; object['person']={}; object['name']='jake'; object['age']='12'; return(object); </code></pre> <p>but I don't know how to loop through the text. How to deal with starting and ending tags? like</p> <pre><code>[tag] [tag]value[/tag] [/tag] </code></pre> <p>I thought to find starting tag from left and ending tag from the right using <code>indexOf('[tag]')</code> and <code>lastindexOf('[/tag]')</code></p> <p>but doesn't work in this situation</p> <pre><code>[tag]value[/tag] [tag]value[/tag] </code></pre> <p>this is the previous function</p> <pre><code>function readTags(str,property){ var beginTag='['+property+']'; var endTag='[/'+property+']'; var values=new Array(0); while(str.indexOf(beginTag)!=-1){ values[values.length]=strBetween(str,beginTag,endTag); str=str.substring(str.indexOf(endTag)+endTag.length); } return(values); } function strBetween(string,strBegin,strEnd){ //StrBetween("abcdef","b","e") //return "cd" var posBegin, posEnd; posBegin=string.indexOf(strBegin); string=string.substring(posBegin + strBegin.length); posEnd=string.indexOf(strEnd); string=string.substring(0,posEnd); if ((posBegin==-1)||(posEnd==-1)){ return(null); }else{ return(string); } } </code></pre>

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