[javascript] Javascript/Jquery Convert string to array

i have a string

var traingIds = "${triningIdArray}";  // ${triningIdArray} this value getting from server 
alert(traingIds)  // alerts [1,2]
var type = typeof(traingIds ) 
alert(type)   // // alerts String

now i want to convert this to array so that i can iterate

i tried

var trainindIdArray = traingIds.split(',');
$.each(trainindIdArray, function(index, value) { 
    alert(index + ': ' + value);   // alerts 0:[1 ,  and  1:2]
});

how to resolve this?

Change

var trainindIdArray = traingIds.split(',');

to

var trainindIdArray = traingIds.replace("[","").replace("]","").split(',');

That will basically remove [ and ] and then split the string

Since array literal notation is still valid JSON, you can use JSON.parse() to convert that string into an array, and from there, use it's values.

var test = "[1,2]";
parsedTest = JSON.parse(test); //an array [1,2]

//access like and array
console.log(parsedTest[0]); //1
console.log(parsedTest[1]); //2

check this out :)

var traingIds = "[1,2]";  // ${triningIdArray} this value getting from server 
alert(traingIds);  // alerts [1,2]
var type = typeof(traingIds);
alert(type);   // // alerts String

//remove square brackets
traingIds = traingIds.replace('[','');
traingIds = traingIds.replace(']','');
alert(traingIds);  // alerts 1,2        
var trainindIdArray = traingIds.split(',');

?for(i = 0; i< trainindIdArray.length; i++){
    alert(trainindIdArray[i]); //outputs individual numbers in array
    }?