Splitting a String into an Array

In this recipe we explore how to split a string into an array.

Type something here:

See it here, split into words and with brackets around each word:

Discussion

Splitting a string into an array is very useful for writing text parsers, or counting words. Versions of Netscape Navigator before 3.0, and of Internet Explorer before 4.0, don't support the string.split() function, but this recipe has a substitute you can use for the earlier browsers.

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