JavaScript split gives array size one instead of zero for empty string

Question

I want to split a string by comma to get an array in Node.js.

exports.test = function(rq, rs){

   var mailList = \"sharan@test.com,pradeep@test.com\";
   var ar         


        

Answer 1

One way to do is to check whether the first value of the split array is empty or not

var arrayList = mailList.split(",");
if(arrayList[0] != ""){
  arrayLength = arrayList.length;
}else{
  arrayLength = 0;
}