JavaScript break sentence by words

Question

What's a good strategy to get full words into an array with its succeeding character.

Example.

This is an amazing sentence.

Array( [0] => This  [1] => is [2] => an [3] => amazing [4] => sentence. ) 

Elements 0 - 3 would have a succeeding space, as a period succeeds the 4th element.

I need you to split these by spacing character, Then once width of element with injected array elements reaches X, Break into a new line.

Please, gawd don't give tons of code. I prefer to write my own just tell me how you would do it.

Answer 1

Similar to Ravi's answer, use match, but use the word boundary \b in the regex to split on word boundaries:

'This is  a test.  This is only a test.'.match(/\b(\w+)\b/g) 

yields

["This", "is", "a", "test", "This", "is", "only", "a", "test"] 

or

'This is  a test.  This is only a test.'.match(/\b(\w+\W+)/g) 

yields

["This ", "is  ", "a ", "test.  ", "This ", "is ", "only ", "a ", "test."] 

Answer 2

Just use split:

var str = "This is an amazing sentence."; var words = str.split(" "); console.log(words); //["This", "is", "an", "amazing", "sentence."] 

and if you need it with a space, why don't you just do that? (use a loop afterwards)

var str = "This is an amazing sentence."; var words = str.split(" "); for (var i = 0; i < words.length - 1; i++) {     words[i] += " "; } console.log(words); //["This ", "is ", "an ", "amazing ", "sentence."] 

Oh, and sleep well!