split

Return a new string in which all case-based characters are in lower case.

This function does not generate a change.

Function

str.split([separator], [limit])

Arguments

Argument Type Description
separator str/regex (optional) The string used to split the original string. If omitted, white-space will be used as separator. Instead of a string, a regular expression may be used as well, see regular expression.
limit int (optional) Split at most limit times. If this value is negative, splitting starts from the end of the string. If omitted, no limit is used.

Regular expression

If separator is a regular expression with capturing parentheses, then each time separator matches, the results of the capturing parentheses are added into the output list.

Return value

Returns a new list with substrings.

Examples

Example using split() without arguments:

'How are you doing?'.split();

Return value in JSON format

[
    "How",
    "are",
    "you",
    "doing?"
]

Example using split() with a limit:

'This is a test'.split(1);

Return value in JSON format

[
    "This",
    "is a test"
]

Example using split() with a negative limit:

'This is a test'.split(-1);

Return value in JSON format

[
    "This is a",
    "test"
]

Example using split() with a separator:

'title,subject,body'.split(',');

Return value in JSON format

[
    "title",
    "subject",
    "body"
]

Example using split() with a regular expression:

'Found 143 songs of 3 minutes and 45 seconds.'.split(/\d+/);

Return value in JSON format

[
    "Found ",
    " songs of ",
    " minutes and ",
    " seconds."
]

Example using split() with a regular expression and capture groups:

'Found 143 songs of 3 minutes and 45 seconds.'.split(/\s*(\d+)\s*/);

Return value in JSON format

[
    "Found",
    "143",
    "songs of",
    "3",
    "minutes and",
    "45",
    "seconds."
]