How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character?

Question

I have this string

\'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345\'

Using JavaScript, what is the fastest way to parse this into

Answer 1

You can use split to split the text.

As an alternative, you can also use match as follow

var str = 'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345';
matches = str.match(/[^~]+/g);

console.log(matches);
document.write(matches);

The regex [^~]+ will match all the characters except ~ and return the matches in an array. You can then extract the matches from it.