Javascript and regex: split string and keep the separator

Question

I have a string:

var string = \"aaaaaa
† bbbb
‡ cccc\"

And I would like to split this string w

Answer 1

Use (positive) lookahead so that the regular expression asserts that the special character exists, but does not actually match it:

string.split(/
(?=&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;)/g);

See it in action:

var string = "aaaaaa
† bbbb
‡ cccc";
console.log(string.split(/
(?=&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;)/g));