How can I split a JavaScript string by white space or comma?

Question

If I try

\"my, tags are, in here\".split(\" ,\")

I get the following

[ \'my, tags are, in here\' ]

Wherea

Answer 1

String.split() can also accept a regular expression:

input.split(/[ ,]+/);

This particular regex splits on a sequence of one or more commas or spaces, so that e.g. multiple consecutive spaces or a comma+space sequence do not produce empty elements in the results.