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Subject: Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript?
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On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 11:40:28 PM UTC-7, $Bill wrote:
> In Perl, I have:
> 
> 	my ($title, $chan, $call, $sTime, $dur) = split /~~/, $el;

$el = 'a~~b~~c~~d~~e' ;

[$title, $chan, $call, $sTime, $dur] = $el.split('~~') ; 

console.log({title : $title , chan : $chan , call : $call , sTime : $sTime , dur : $dur}) ;

=>

{ title: 'a', chan: 'b', call: 'c', sTime: 'd', dur: 'e' }

.c.f. "deconstruction" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment

~~ kintalken ~~