JS Regular Expressions split

Question

this is my text '123,456/,789,ABC' and I want to split by ',' but not split '/,'.

var text = '123,456/,789,ABC';
var texts = text.split(/[^/],/g);
console.log(texts)

result is [ '12', '456/,78', 'ABC' ]

but I expect [ '123', '456/,789', 'ABC' ]

Answer 1

For your situation you can simply use this regexp:

var text = '123,456/,789,ABC';
var texts = text.split(/\b,/g);
console.log(texts); // ["123", "456/,789", "ABC"]

The idea is that word boundary metacharacter \b, will not match /, because backslash is not word character, so there is no word boundary between / and ,.

RegExp test: http://regex101.com/r/qB6aT7/1