How in node to split string by newline ('\n')?

Question

How in node to split string by newline (\'\\n\') ? I have simple string like var a = \"test.js\\nagain.js\" and I need to get [\"test.js\", \"again.js\"]<

Answer 1

If the file is native to your system (certainly no guarantees of that), then Node can help you out:

var os = require('os');

a.split(os.EOL);

This is usually more useful for constructing output strings from Node though, for platform portability.