Question

I have a very simple code:

var allTypes = "restaurant|dentist";
var typeSplitter = new RegExp("([a-zA-Z]+)");
typeSplitter.exec(allTypes);

I want an array like this:

[“restaurant”, “dentist”]

But instead I get this:

[“restaurant”, “restaurant”]

I did test my regex here. I’ve been fiddling for way to long with this, probably something I don’t know about

Answer 1

Just do this

allTypes.split('|');
// => ['restaurant', 'dentist']

.split can also take a regex; even though it’s not necessary in this case

allTypes.split(/[|]/);

But if you really want to use regex to capture, you have to use .match

matches = allTypes.match(/([a-zA-Z]+)/g); // g = global modifier