Split string by charcter and store into array
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Sometimes you might need to create an array from a string with words separated by a colon. There are many ways to accomplish this task and I would like to discuss one of the ways we are using here at Walden Systems, because we believe this is the most straightforward method to create an array from a string.
Strategy to creating an array from a string is straight forward and involves only one step: We will use is the built in JavaScript string function "split( )".
Here is the code:
var some_string = "Mary:had:a:little:lamb";
var string_list = some_string.split( ":") ;
This will result in string_list with the following:
Mary
had
a
little
lamb