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

In addition to the answers the others pointed out, I'd like to point out that Mozilla's JavaScript engine (spidermonkey) supports destructuring assignments:

This is not portable, so not ideal for web programming. However, if you're writing a plugin for firefox or thunderbird or etc, then there are a number of interesting language extensions available.