How do I split a string with multiple separators in javascript?

Question

How do I split a string with multiple separators in JavaScript? I\'m trying to split on both commas and spaces but, AFAIK, JS\'s split function only supports one separator.

Answer 1

For those of you who want more customization in their splitting function, I wrote a recursive algorithm that splits a given string with a list of characters to split on. I wrote this before I saw the above post. I hope it helps some frustrated programmers.

splitString = function(string, splitters) {
    var list = [string];
    for(var i=0, len=splitters.length; i

Example above returns: ["people", "and", "other", "things"]

Note: flatten function was taken from Rosetta Code