Split variable using a special character in JavaScript

Question

I have a variable var i = "my*text" I want to split it using special character *. I mean, I want to generate var one = "my&

Answer 1

You can use the split method:

var result = i.split('*');

The variable result now contains an array with two items:

result[0] : 'my'
result[1] : 'text'

You can also use string operations to locate the special character and get the strings before and after that:

var index = i.indexOf('*');
var one = i.substr(0, index);
var two = i.substr(index + 1, i.length - index - 1);