Split on javascript character with specific leading and trailing characters

Question

I have a string which looks like this: "foo, bar,baz"

I need your help with regexp to split it on commas that are surrounded by anything on both sides, e.g. ['foo, bar', 'baz']

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13 12:34:24Z

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You may match all the substrings you need with /(?:\s,\S|\S,\s|[^,])+/g regex:

var regex = /(?:\s,\S|\S,\s|[^,])+/g;
var str = "foo, bar,baz";
console.log(str.match(regex));

The regex matches 1+ occurrences of:

answered Oct 13, 2016 at 12:34

Wiktor Stribiżew

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