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

The suggestion to use .split(/[ ,]+/) is good, but with natural sentences sooner or later you'll end up getting empty elements in the array. e.g. ['foo', '', 'bar'].

Which is fine if that's okay for your use case. But if you want to get rid of the empty elements you can do:

var str = 'whatever your text is...';
str.split(/[ ,]+/).filter(Boolean);