How do I split a string with multiple separators in javascript?

Question

How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript? I\'m trying to split on both commas and spaces but, AFAIK, JS\'s split function only supports one separator.

Answer 1

You could just lump all the characters you want to use as separators either singularly or collectively into a regular expression and pass them to the split function. For instance you could write:

console.log( "dasdnk asd, (naks) :d skldma".split(/[ \(,\)]+/) );

And the output will be:

["dasdnk", "asd", "naks", ":d", "skldma"]