I have this code which works ok, but i was wondering if it could be done faster with jquery to get the index from input name attribute
<input name="inp[myindex]" value="bla" />
and the jquery
var $idx = $this.attr('name');
var $split = $idx.split('[');
$idx = $split[1];
$idx = $idx.replace(']', '');
Thanks in advance!
A concise idiom to extract a string between two boundaries is split-pop-shift:
var subname= this.name.split('[').pop().split(']').shift();
or there's always the regex method, shorter still though ugly:
var subname= this.name.match(/\[([^[]*)\]/)[1];
jQuery is focused on DOM manipulations and doesn't have its own string processing functions to speak of. The method of using square brackets for indexed field names is a PHP quirk rather than anything inherent to HTML, which sees names only as plain old strings.
There are other ways to do this, but nothing with jquery. Just other variations of substring, replace, etc.
$('input[name="<name-here>"]')
