split list in half online code example

Example 1: split a message

const message = 'This is a test'

var args = message.split(' ');

console.log(args[0]) // Responds "This"
console.log(args[1]) // Responds "is"
console.log(args[2]) // Responds "a"
console.log(args[3]) // Responds "test"

Example 2: split words into lines

Just use tr command for separating words output into separate lines:
tr -s '[[:punct:][:space:]]' '\n'
Example for
cat file.txt | tr -s '[[:punct:][:space:]]' '\n'