Question

I have a string:

"This is the\nstring with\nline breaks\n"

I need to get:

[This, is, the\n, string, with\n, line, breaks\n]

When I use .split(/\s{1,}/) – \n line breaks disappear. How to preserve them?

Multiple spaces need to be considered

Answer 1

Perhaps a match will give you what you want

"This is the\nstring with\nline breaks\n".match( /([^\s]+\n*|\n+)/g );

// ["This", "is", "the\n", "string", "with\n", "line", "breaks\n"]

[^\s]+ means as many non-space as possible (one or more),
\n* means as many new lines as possible (0 or more),
| means OR,
\n+ means as many new lines as possible (one or more).