Split the string based on tag using jquery

Question

How can i split the string containing
tag using jquery. I tried the following code but it get error in console. I am not sure how to split the strin

Answer 1

Can't you just do something like:

 var lines = 'this is for testing 
 How are you
'.split('
');

Just as a side note if you want to get rid of the empty elements you can filter the lines like so:

// this will get rid of empty elements 
lines = lines.filter(function(n) { 
    return n; 
});