Question

I’m getting a result from a server where items are separated with new lines, so I do a:

split('\n');
split('\\n');

It doesn’t work! the \ disappears while debugging on Chrome (I see split(‘n’)).

How to make it work?

Sample data (copy from debugger of chrome):

“יופי וקוסמטיקה|10↵בידור ותרבות|9↵לילד ולתינוק|3↵תיירות|4↵תכשיטים|5”

Answer 1

If the result has the literal characters "\n" in it, you need to escape your \.

split('\\n');

Another possibility is that you have \r\n sequences in the string. If so, do this:

split('\r\n');

…although the .split('\n') should still work.

Or if it is sending them with just \r sequences, you’d do:

split('\r');

If you’re not sure, do this:

split(/\r\n|\n|\r/);