split string to array code example

Example 1: javascript explode

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

Example 2: js string to array

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

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

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 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 5: split string

const str = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.';

const words = str.split(' ');
console.log(words[3]);
// expected output: "fox"

const chars = str.split('');
console.log(chars[8]);
// expected output: "k"

const strCopy = str.split();
console.log(strCopy);
// expected output: Array ["The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."]

Example 6: 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)