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How to Split a String Breaking at a Particular Character in JavaScript

Read this tutorial and find two easy and fast methods of splitting the string breaking at a particular character in JavaScript. Also, find and try examples.

In this tutorial, you will find the easiest ways of splitting the string in small chunks breaking at a particular character.

For example, you have the following string:

jack brown132 StreetApt 20New JerseyNJ~12345

For splitting the strings, we should use the split() method like this:

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According to ECMAScript6, the cleanest way is destructing arrays in the following way:

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The split() Method

The <kbd class="highlighted">split()</kbd> method cuts the string into substrings, puts them into an array, and returns the array. The division is accomplished by searching for a pattern, where it is provided as the first parameter in the call of the method.