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

This isn't as good as the destructuring answer, but seeing as this question was asked 12 years ago, I decided to give it an answer that also would have worked 12 years ago.

function Record(s) {
    var keys = ["name", "address", "address2", "city", "state", "zip"], values = s.split("~"), i
    for (i = 0; i