substring

by Joe Saad

HTML

<input type="text">
    
<div id="stringResult"></div>
    
<button>Show Result</button>

JavaScript

$('button').click(function(){
    var inText = $('input').val();
    var charPOS = inText.indexOf('|');
    
    var result = inText.substring(0,charPOS);
    $('#stringResult').text(result + charPOS);
    
    if (charPOS > -1){
        alert('found');
    }
    
});