I have my string:
var str = '123\r\nabc';
Which I'd like to produce this array:
["1", "2", "3", "
", "a", "b", "c"]
So, I'm looking to split it by character, but to keep \r\n together as one element in the resulting array.
My failed attempts:
console.log(str.split(/\r\n|/)); // removes \r\n
console.log(str.split(/\r\n/)); // splits by \r\n
You can’t do this with split alone – /(\r\n)?/, for example, would leave undefineds in the result – so you’ll need to resort to match instead.
var result = str.match(/\r\n|[\S\s]/g);
where [\S\s] is . but including newlines. Note that result will be null on an empty string.
return (input.match(/\r\n|[\S\s]/g) || [])You can use this regex in split:
var str = "123\r\nabc";
console.log( str.split(/(\r\n)?/).filter(Boolean) );
\r\n will make sure to capture it in the resulting array. filter(Boolean) is used to filter out undefined elements from array.Output:
["1", "2", "3", "
↵", "a", "b", "c"]
