Question

How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript?

I’m trying to split on both commas and spaces, but AFAIK JavaScript’s split() function only supports one separator.

Answer 1

Pass in a regexp as the parameter:

js> 'Hello awesome, world!'.split(/[\s,]+/) Hello,awesome,world! 

Edited to add:

You can get the last element by selecting the length of the array minus 1:

>>> bits = 'Hello awesome, world!'.split(/[\s,]+/) ['Hello', 'awesome', 'world!'] >>> bit = bits[bits.length - 1] 'world!' 

… and if the pattern doesn’t match:

>>> bits = 'Hello awesome, world!'.split(/foo/) ['Hello awesome, world!'] >>> bits[bits.length - 1] 'Hello awesome, world!'