[removed] Convert textarea into an array

Question

How would you go about breaking up a textarea value into an array, based on the end of line separation? Use of jQuery is cool by me...

Answer 1

I like the "cross-platform way" answer best (https://stackoverflow.com/a/32240738/34806) as I've grappled with input from a Mac in the past. Nevertheless I think most of the existing answers could benefit from an additional step.

Specifically, what if some lines are empty? The following will filter out such lines so that we wind up with a "compact" array rather than a "sparse" one (or at least, rather than one with elements containing no values)

var area = document.getElementById("area");             
var lines = area.value.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n").split("\n").filter(line => line);