Split() text either by line breaks or spaces (" ")

[Mikael5FE7]

Hi everyone,
I would like to split my source text up to single words. text.sourceText.split(" ") works, but it doesnt take line breaks into account. I thought this would be the solution:

text.sourceText.split(" ", "\r")

 I e splitting the text up either by spaces or line breaks, but it doesn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Best,

Mikael

[Airweb_AE · Accepted solution]

You need to replace line breaks with spaces and then split spaces

text.sourceText.replace(/\r/g,"\r ").split(" ")

[Mikael5FE7]

I had tried something similar but that didn't work. After some troubeshooting I found that it only replaced the first instance of a linebreak. This is how I finally got it to work:

text.sourceText.replace(/\r/g, "\r ").split(" ")

 Thank you!

[Mikael5FE7]

The "g" for global (to keep replacing line breaks after the first instance. The "\r " (including a space) since I wanted to keep the line break.

[Mylenium]

Some simple regex trickery probably works just as well, since all string functions should handle regular expressions without explitly having to declare them:

text.sourceText.split(" "|"\r")

Mylenium

[Mikael5FE7]

I thought I tried that, maybe I was just typing it wrong. But problem now solved, thank you!