turn string into array javascript 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: convert string to array js

// our string
let string = 'ABCDEFG';

// splits every letter in string into an item in our array
let newArray = string.split('');

console.log(newArray); // OUTPUTS: [ "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G" ]

Example 3: javascript explode

//split into array of strings.
var str = "Well, how, are , we , doing, today";
var res = str.split(",");

Example 4: string split javascript

var myString = "An,array,in,a,string,separated,by,a,comma";
var myArray = myString.split(",");
/* 
*
*  myArray :
*  ['An', 'array', 'in', 'a', 'string', 'separated', 'by', 'a', 'comma']
*
*/

Example 5: string to array javascript

const str = 'Hello!';

console.log(Array.from(str)); //  ["H", "e", "l", "l", "o", "!"]

Example 6: js string to array

str = 'How are you doing today?';
console.log(str.split(' '));

>> (5) ["How", "are", "you", "doing", "today?"]