Split a string based on multiple delimiters

Question

I was trying to split a string based on multiple delimiters by referring How split a string in jquery with multiple strings as separator

Since multiple delimiters I

Answer 1

I think you would need to escape the +, * and ?, since they've got special meaning in most regex languages

Answer 2

The following would be an easier way of accomplishing the same thing.

var tokens = x.split(new RegExp('[-+()*/:? ]', 'g'));​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Note that - must come first (or be escaped), otherwise it will think it is the range operator (e.g. a-z)

Answer 3

If you want to split based in multiple regexes and dont want to write a big regex You could use replace and split. Like this:

const spliters = [
	/(\[products\])/g,
	/(\[link\])/g,
	/(\[llinks\])/g,
];
let newString = "aa [products] bb [link] [products] cc [llinks] dd";
spliters.forEach(regex => {
	newString = newString.replace(regex, match => `æææ${match}æææ`);
});
const mySplit = newString.split(/æææ([^æ]+)æææ/)
console.log(mySplit);

This works very well for my case.

Answer 4

This is because characters like + and * have special meaning in Regex.

Change your join from | to |\ and you should be fine, escaping the literals.

Answer 5

This should work:

var separators = [' ', '+', '(', ')', '*', '\\/', ':', '?', '-'];
var tokens = x.split(new RegExp('[' + separators.join('') + ']', 'g'));​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Generated regex will be using regex character class: /[ +()*\/:?-]/g

This way you don't need to escape anything.

Answer 6

escape needed for regex related characters +,-,(,),*,?

var x = "adfds+fsdf-sdf";

var separators = [' ', '\\\+', '-', '\\\(', '\\\)', '\\*', '/', ':', '\\\?'];
console.log(separators.join('|'));
var tokens = x.split(new RegExp(separators.join('|'), 'g'));
console.log(tokens);

http://jsfiddle.net/cpdjZ/