JavaScript equivalent of PHP preg_split()

Question

Is there an equivalent of the PHP function preg_split for JavaScript?

Fitch

possible duplicate of javascript equivalent of php's preg_replace – Tiein

or a duplicate of this #4438419 – Merrymaker

Answer 1

Any string in javascript can be split using the string.split function, e.g.

"foo:bar".split(/:/)

where split takes as an argument either a regular expression or a literal string.

Towill

Answer 2

You can use regular expressions with split.

The problem is the escape characters in the string as the (? opens a non capturing group but there is no corresponding } to close the non capturing group it identifies the string to look for as '

Chartier

Meta commentary: this answer is currently terminated at for as '. However when I go to edit it I see the whole thing in the preview... huh. Not sure what to do - in the unlikely case a migration or upgrade chewed something somewhere, fixing the comment might mask a bug. – Barkley

Answer 3

If you want support for all of the preg_split arguments see https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/blob/master/_workbench/pcre/preg_split.js (though not sure how well tested it is).

Just bear in mind that JavaScript's regex syntax is somewhat different from PHP's (mostly less expressive). We would like to integrate XRegExp at some point as that makes up for some of the missing features of PHP regexes (as well as fixes the many browser reliability problems with functions like String.split()).

Leisaleiser