jQuery Split revisited

Split method split the string into array of substring and return a new array. The basic syntax for split method is,

1	string.split(separator, limit)

It takes 2 parameters,
1. separator - This is optional. It specifies the character to use for splitting the string. If omitted, the entire string will be returned.
2. limit - This is also optional. This will be an integer value that specifies the number of splits to be made.

Let's see some examples.

Example 1:

1 2	var element = 'jQuery By Example Rocks!!'; var arrayOfStrings = element.split();

In this example, I have not used any separator and not defined any element. So the whole string will be returned back to arrayOfStrings variable.

Example 2:

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1 2	var element = 'jQuery By Example Rocks!!'; var arrayOfStrings = element.split(" ");

In this example, I have passed space as delimiter or separator to split the string. So arrayOfStrings variable will have 4 items.

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arrayOfStrings[0] = "jQuery" arrayOfStrings[1] = "By" arrayOfStrings[2] = "Example" arrayOfStrings[3] = "Rocks!"

Example 3:

1 2	var element = 'jQuery By Example Rocks!!'; var arrayOfStrings = element.split(" ",3);

In this example, I have passed space as delimiter or separator to split the string and also passed limit as 3. So arrayOfStrings variable will have only 3 items.

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arrayOfStrings[0] = "jQuery" arrayOfStrings[1] = "By" arrayOfStrings[2] = "Example"

Hope this post provides you enough information about Split method.