Cell Text in drawCell hook has commas

I’ve created a JSFiddle to show that when I grab the cell text from a specific cell of the autotable it is filled with sporadic commas and all formatting (“\n”) are gone. I need to grab and modify this data by using the addPageContent but their are commas in text that should only have one comma. Here is the JSFiddle

https://jsfiddle.net/ptw5n61a/1/

When I do the following

   drawCell: function(cell, data) {
		           	 if (data.column.dataKey === "description") {
		           		 var cellVal = cell.text.toString();
		           		 
		           		 if (cellVal != undefined && cellVal != '') {
		           			titleAndDesc.push({
		      	              title: cellVal.substring(0, cellVal.indexOf(':')),
		    	              desc: cellVal.substring(cellVal.indexOf(':')+1)
		    	            });
		    	            i++;
		           		 }
		           	 }
		    	    }

And then try to get those values in the addPageContent hook

addPageContent: function() {  
		        	for (var i = 0; i < titleAndDesc.length; i++) {
		        		   console.log("TITLE: "+titleAndDesc[i].title);
		        		   console.log("DESC: "+titleAndDesc[i].desc);
		        	   }
		             } 

I see the following in the console.

TITLE: Title DESC: This is a string and it’s only a string.,Any attempts to make this not a string will,be met with resistance, but with that,resistance you will learn proper use

Why does this happen? Is it a bug??

[kevinneibarger]

Thanks Simon! Shortly after I typed this I figured out a way similar to what you suggested. The “\n” was replaced with “,” because the data.cell.text is now a String array with the lines separated by “\n”. I simply treated that data as such and parsed the array and re-wrote the content. All of this so I could simply bold the first word of the first line…

The API rocks! Thanks!

[simonbengtsson]

Hmm, with the string you provided and the following code I get this result.

let doc = new jsPDF('l', 'pt');
doc.autoTable({body: [["This is a string and it's only a string.\nAny attempts to make this not a string will be met with resistance,\nbut with that resistance you will learn proper use."]]});
doc.save("test.pdf");

And using the didDrawCell you can manually draw any content you want in a cell using any formatting. A little bit cumbersome, but I think that’s the easiest api for it. Let me know if you have a suggestion for a betteer API 👍