Question

I am looking to take a string and find all the spaces in it and separate that into different variables. I know I could use the .split() but that wouldn’t make new variables. I would prefer to not use jQuery or other JavaScript library but if I have to, it wouldn’t be the worst thing. Thanks!

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Example, John M Peters would result in the variables fname: John, mname: M and lname:
Peters.

Answer 1

.split() just returns an array, so you can easily assign new variables using that…

var str = "John M Peters";
var fname = str.split(" ")[0];
var mname = str.split(" ")[1];
var lname = str.split(" ")[2];