To split a string at a specific character, you can use the split() method on the string and then pass that character as an argument to the split() method in JavaScript.
/* Split string at specific character */
str.split(",");
Consider a string with commas after every word like this,
// a string
const str = "John,Doe,Mary,Roy,Lily";
Now let's use the split() method on the string and pass the character in our case comma (,) as an argument to the method to split the string when it encounters the comma.
It can be done like this,
// a string
const str = "John,Doe,Mary,Roy,Lily";
// split string at comma
// using the split() method
const splitArr = str.split(",");
console.log(splitArr); // ["John", "Doe", "Mary", "Roy", "Lily"]
- The
split()string method returns an array of split strings. - You can also pass regex expressions to the
split()method.
See this example live in JSBin.