Split string in JavaScript and detect line break

Question

I have a small function I found that takes a string from a textarea and then puts it into a canvas element and wraps the text when the line gets to

Answer 1

Use the following:

var enteredText = document.getElementById("textArea").value;
var numberOfLineBreaks = (enteredText.match(/\n/g)||[]).length;
alert('Number of breaks: ' + numberOfLineBreaks);

DEMO

Now what I did was to split the string first using linebreaks, and then split it again like you did before. Note: you can also use jQuery combined with regex for this:

var splitted = $('#textArea').val().split("\n");           // will split on line breaks

Hope that helps you out!