Extract words with RegEx

Question

I am new with RegEx, but it would be very useful to use it for my project. What I want to do in Javascript is this :

I have this kind of string \"/this/is/an/example

Answer 1

Use split()

The split() method splits a String object into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings, using a specified separator string to determine where to make each split.

var str = "/this/is/a/test"; 
var array = str.split('/');
console.log(array);

In case you want to do with regex.

var str = "/this/is/a/test"; 
var patt1 = /(\w+)/g;
var result = str.match(patt1)
console.log(result);