Javascript JS string function help needed

[dukestanley]

I am actually looking for to pickup a number from the Description(action) of the incident record. Any help wud be appreciated.

example an ovo alert message at HPSM:
incident description--> sss.sss.com failed (REF#11335) to run the CRON job

I need to pick up the "11335" using javascript at formatcontrol-->IM.template.open

[glg]

Will it always be contained in the (REF#XXXXX) and that's on the first line? Is it always going to be 5 characters? If so, this should work. Give it a try.

var desc1 = incident.description[0]; // Gets first line of description (which is an SC array) into a JS string
var refindex = desc1.indexOf("REF"); // Get location of REF, number returned is the R, so
var refnumber = desc1.substr(refindex+4, 5); // number starts 4 characters after the R, and is 5 characters long

[dukestanley]

Thanks glg. I have completed this task and works fine..
sDescription = aAction.toString();
nStart = sDescription.indexOf("SPEDI_")+6;
nEnd = sDescription.indexOf("_",nStart);
sNumber = sDescription.substr(nStart,nEnd-nStart);
spediNum = sNumber;
print(spediNum);

[glg]

if you're finding an end character, use substring instead of substr:
sNumber = sDescription.substring(nStart, nEnd);

substr(start, length)
substring(start, end)