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

When I want to take into account extra characters like your commas (in my case each token may be entered with quotes), I'd do a string.replace() to change the other delimiters to blanks and then split on whitespace.