Javascript equivalent of PHP's sscanf function?

Question

Pretty basic question. I have a string, it will always be in the format of "(45.234235235,55.345345345)" with variable numbers of decimal places. I want to extract both of these numbers. In PHP I would sscanf, but I want to do this in Javascript.

Answer 1

There is nothing like sscanf, but you can use .replace() and .split():

var data = str.replace(/[()\s]+/g, '').split(',');

Answer 2

Have you heard of the php.js project?

http://phpjs.org/functions/sscanf:886

This is to directly answer your question only. The JavaScript-native way to tackle your problem would be to use regular expressions. See Felix Kling's answer for the proper solution.