string into an array javascript code example

Example 1: 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 2: javascript split

var names = 'Harry ;Fred Barney; Helen Rigby ; Bill Abel ;Chris Hand ';

console.log(names);

var re = /\s*(?:;|$)\s*/;
var nameList = names.split(re);

console.log(nameList);