split string to 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: javascript explode

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

Example 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: split array javascript

// Returns new array from exising one
arr.slice(start, end);