javascript splitting a string in an array

Question

I'm new to javascript and had a quick question.

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish.

myArray = ["Jack Ripper", "John Parker"]; 

I'd like to return an array by breaking up the input string into individual words. For example "Jack Ripper" would be returned as ["Jack", "Ripper"]

I don't know what this is called but would sure like to learn. Any help or a point in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

In general this is called string splitting. Pretty much every language will have built in tools to do this. In my example I have used a space (" ") as my delimiter, but you can split a string by pretty much anything. For example, if you had "Jack,Ripper" you could use split(",").

var str = "Jack Ripper";
var result = str.split(" ");

produces

result[0] = Jack

result[1] = Ripper

You should be able to use this example to do whatever you need concerning larger strings, different delimiters, etc...