How to grab substring before a specified character jQuery or JavaScript

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Anjana Sharma picture Anjana Sharma · Feb 3, 2012 · Viewed 416.5k times · Source

I am trying to extract everything before the ',' comma. How do I do this in JavaScript or jQuery? I tried this and not working..

1345 albany street, Bellevue WA 42344

I just want to grab the street address.

var streetaddress= substr(addy, 0, index(addy, '.'));

Answer

wheresrhys picture wheresrhys · Feb 3, 2012 
var streetaddress= addy.substr(0, addy.indexOf(','));

While it's not the best place for definitive information on what each method does (mozilla developer network is better for that) w3schools.com is good for introducing you to syntax.

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