How can I split a JavaScript string by white space or comma

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If I try   my  tags are  in here  split         I get the following     my  tags are  in here      Whereas I want    my    tags    are    in    here

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When I want to take into account extra characters like your commas  in my case each token may be entered with quotes   I d do a string replace   to change the other delimiters to blanks and then split on whitespace

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you can use regex in order to catch any length of white space  and this would be like    var text    hoi how     are          you   var arr   text split   s      console log arr     will result     hoi    how    are    you    console log arr 2      will result    are

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The suggestion to use  split          is good  but with natural sentences sooner or later you ll end up getting empty elements in the array  e g    foo        bar     Which is fine if that s okay for your use case  But if you want to get rid of the empty elements you can do   var str    whatever your text is      str split          filter Boolean

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String split   can also accept a regular expression  input split            This particular regex splits on a sequence of one or more commas or spaces  so that e g  multiple consecutive spaces or a comma space sequence do not produce empty elements in the results

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my  tags are  in here  split            the result is      my    tags    are    in    here

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input split   s   s   s          s  matches zero or more white space characters  not just spaces  but also tabs and newlines          s   matches one white space character or one comma  If you want to avoid blank elements from input like  foo bar  foobar   this will do the trick   input split    s    s       The   matches one or more of the preceding character or group   Edit   Added  after comma which matches zero or one comma   Edit 2   Turns out edit 1 was a mistake  Fixed it  Now there has to be at least one comma or one space for the expression to find a match

[javascript] How can I split a JavaScript string by white space or comma?

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