Splitting string by whitespace, without empty elements?

Question

I am trying to explode an string using javascript to pick searchterms, whitespace-separated. However I get empty array elements if a searchterm is ended by a whitespace, as

Answer 1

This is a bit old, but for documentation purposes there is also another neat way.

someString.filter(Boolean);

// Example
['fds', '', 'aaaaa', 'AA', 'ffDs', "", 'd'].filter(Boolean);
// Output
["fds", "aaaaa", "AA", "ffDs", "d"]