seperate texts in js code example

Example 1: javascript split

var names = 'Harry ;Fred Barney; Helen Rigby ; Bill Abel ;Chris Hand ';

console.log(names);

var re = /\s*(?:;|$)\s*/;
var nameList = names.split(re);

console.log(nameList);

Example 2: split() javascript

let countWords = function(sentence){
    return sentence.split(' ').length;
}

console.log(countWords('Type any sentence here'));

//result will be '4'(for words in the sentence)