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

I made a modification to jichi's answer, and put it in a function which also supports multiple letters.

String.prototype.splitAndKeep = function(separator, method='seperate'){
    var str = this;
    if(method == 'seperate'){
        str = str.split(new RegExp(`(${separator})`, 'g'));
    }else if(method == 'infront'){
        str = str.split(new RegExp(`(?=${separator})`, 'g'));
    }else if(method == 'behind'){
        str = str.split(new RegExp(`(.*?${separator})`, 'g'));
        str = str.filter(function(el){return el !== "";});
    }
    return str;
};

jichi's answers 3rd method would not work in this function, so I took the 4th method, and removed the empty spaces to get the same result.

edit: second method which excepts an array to split char1 or char2

String.prototype.splitAndKeep = function(separator, method='seperate'){
    var str = this;
    function splitAndKeep(str, separator, method='seperate'){
        if(method == 'seperate'){
            str = str.split(new RegExp(`(${separator})`, 'g'));
        }else if(method == 'infront'){
            str = str.split(new RegExp(`(?=${separator})`, 'g'));
        }else if(method == 'behind'){
            str = str.split(new RegExp(`(.*?${separator})`, 'g'));
            str = str.filter(function(el){return el !== "";});
        }
        return str;
    }
    if(Array.isArray(separator)){
        var parts = splitAndKeep(str, separator[0], method);
        for(var i = 1; i < separator.length; i++){
            var partsTemp = parts;
            parts = [];
            for(var p = 0; p < partsTemp.length; p++){
                parts = parts.concat(splitAndKeep(partsTemp[p], separator[i], method));
            }
        }
        return parts;
    }else{
        return splitAndKeep(str, separator, method);
    }
};

usage:

str = "first1-second2-third3-last";

str.splitAndKeep(["1", "2", "3"]) == ["first", "1", "-second", "2", "-third", "3", "-last"];

str.splitAndKeep("-") == ["first1", "-", "second2", "-", "third3", "-", "last"];