Split for ng repeat item?

Question

Simple question- if I have this in my controller:

$scope.somedata = \'Item 1, Item 2\'; // set from something else

is there a way to split some

Answer 1

The string the right of the | is resolved to the name of a filter (usually they are string formatting filters, but the angular team has also provided the filter filter, which returns a filtered array (a bit misleading because the two share the same name). You could create your own split filter to accomplish what you want:

angular.module('myFilters', []).
  filter('split', function() {
    return function(input, delimiter) {
      var delimiter = delimiter || ',';

      return input.split(delimiter);
    } 
  });

You could use the filter like so:

Or specify a delimiter:

Consider the above pseudo-code because I haven't tested it.

Le plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/hk6F0Y6p5YAXv6fyXfSz?p=preview