Javascript split() not working in IE

Question

Lets say I have a textarea with this text:

1. first line some text.
2. second line, other text. next line will be empty.
3. (empt

Answer 1

The regex split is behaving strangely in IE8 and lower. Use a string comparison instead and it seems to work (fiddle)

testText.split("\n")

rather than

testText.split(/\n/)

[Edit] From Steven Levithan's Blog:

Internet Explorer excludes almost all empty values from the resulting array (e.g., when two delimiters appear next to each other in the data, or when a delimiter appears at the start or end of the data)