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Summary
How to extract elements from a delimited list using JavaScript
Question
The following javascript code helps to separate each of the elementes from a list separated by semicolon.
For example, the eventout records may contain a list of the emails to which a notification will be sent
Answer
var
thelist="firstemail@domain.com;secondemail@domain.com;thirdemail@domain.com;fourthemail@domain.com;";
var count=1;
var posdelimiter=0;
var oneemail="";
while (thelist.length!=0)
{
posdelimiter=thelist.indexOf(";");//This delimiter can be changed to any character that separate the list, in this case a semicolon
oneemail=thelist.substring(0,posdelimiter);
// Section to add any code where each of the values from the list will be used. In this case, olny print each value
print("element number "+count+" from the list is: "+oneemail);
//
thelist=thelist.substring(posdelimiter+1,thelist.length);
count++;
}