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

I would create a function along these lines. This is just a quick-and-dirty and doesn't do any validation, I leave that up to you.

function parse_name(theName) {
    var nameSplit = theName.split(" ");

    var nameFields = {
            first  : nameSplit[0],
            middle : nameSplit[1],
            last   : nameSplit[2]
        };

    return nameFields;
}

Then you can call it any time you need to parse a name.

var parsedName = parse_name("John M Smith");

alert(parsedName.first); // Should alert "John"
alert(parsedName.middle); // Should alert "M"
alert(parsedName.last); // Should alert "Smith"