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

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March 6, 2024
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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

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Correct answer Airweb_AE

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

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

Mylenium

Brainiac

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

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Mikael5FE7Author

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

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Airweb_AECorrect answer

Brainiac

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

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

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Mikael5FE7Author

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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!

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