breaking a string into an array code example

Example 1: javascript slice string from character

var input = 'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345';

var fields = input.split('~');

var name = fields[0];
var street = fields[1];

Example 2: how to saperate string to array

Scanner in=new Scanner(System.in);
		String input=in.nextLine();
		String[] word=input.split(" ");