Javascript separate string into different variables

Question

I am looking to take a string and find all the spaces in it and separate that into different variables. I know I could use the .split() but that wouldn\'t make

Answer 1

.split() just returns an array, so you can easily assign new variables using that...

var str = "John M Peters";
var fname = str.split(" ")[0];
var mname = str.split(" ")[1];
var lname = str.split(" ")[2];