Counting vowels in javascript

Question

I use this code to search and count vowels in the string,

a = \"run forest, run\";
a = a.split(\" \");
var syl = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < a.length - 1; i++) {
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

var syl = ("|"+a+"|").split(/[aeiou]/i).length-1;

The | ensures there are no edge cases, such as having a vowel at the start or end of the string.