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Subject: Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:02:34 -0700
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On 7/19/2016 11:14, Martin Honnen wrote:
> On 19.07.2016 19:12, $Bill wrote:
>>
>>     var (title, chan, call, sTime, dur) = el.split('~~'); // do it all
>> in one like Perl
>>
>> Any way to do that?
>
> See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment, in Firefox and Chrome you should be able to use e.g.
>
>   var [title, chan, call, sTime, dur] = el.split('~~');
>
> See https://jsfiddle.net/rxjwajpn/.

I knew there had to be a way to do that - kind of an obscure part of the reference
manual though.  I'm looking under var and assignment type ref pages.

Much grass amigo, that worked perfectly.