js split array code example

Example 1: javascript split by comma

<script>
var names = 'Harry,John,Clark,Peter,Rohn,Alice';
var nameArr = names.split(',');
console.log(nameArr);
 
// Accessing individual values
alert(nameArr[0]); // Outputs: Harry
alert(nameArr[1]); // Outputs: John
alert(nameArr[nameArr.length - 1]); // Outputs: Alice
 
var str = 'Hello World!';
var chars = str.split('');
console.log();
 
// Accessing individual values
alert(chars[0]); // Outputs: H
alert(chars[1]); // Outputs: e
alert(chars[chars.length - 1]); // Outputs: !
</script>

Example 2: javascript split array into chuncks of

function splitArrayIntoChunksOfLen(arr, len) {
  var chunks = [], i = 0, n = arr.length;
  while (i < n) {
    chunks.push(arr.slice(i, i += len));
  }
  return chunks;
}
var alphabet=['a','b','c','d','e','f'];
var alphabetPairs=splitArrayIntoChunksOfLen(alphabet,2); //split into chunks of two

Example 3: javascript split

// bad example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6484670/how-do-i-split-a-string-into-an-array-of-characters/38901550#38901550

var arr = foo.split(''); 
console.log(arr); // ["s", "o", "m", "e", "s", "t", "r", "i", "n", "g"]

Example 4: javascript split string

// Split string into an array of strings
const path = "/usr/home/chucknorris"
let result = path.split("/")
console.log(result)
// result
// ["", "usr", "home", "chucknorris"]
let username = result[3]
console.log(username)
// username
// "chucknorris"

Example 5: javascript how to split array into subarrays javascript

// Example array.
let randomArray = [3, 5, 1, 5, 7,];
// Create an empty array.
let arrayOfArrays = [];

function splitArray( array ) {
    while (array.length > 0) {
        let arrayElement = array.splice(0,1);
        arrayOfArrays.push(arrayElement);
    }
    return arrayOfArrays;
}

// Call the function while passing in an array of your choice.
splitArray(randomArray)
// => [ [ 3 ], [ 5 ], [ 1 ], [ 5 ], [ 7 ] ]

Example 6: 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];