Given strings
s1 = "abcfoodefbarghi"
and
s2 = "abcbardefooghi"
How can I split s1 into "abc" and "defbarghi" and s2 into "abc" and "defooghi" That is: split a string into two on the first occurrence of either one of strings "foo" or "bar"
I suppose this could be done with s.split(/regexp/), but what should this regexp be?
Use a Regular Expression in this way:
var match = s1.match(/^([\S\s]*?)(?:foo|bar)([\S\s]*)$/);
/* If foo or bar is found:
match[1] contains the first part
match[2] contains the second part */
Explanation of the RE:
[\S\s]*? matches just enough characters to match the next part of the RE, which is(foo|bar) either "foo", or "bar"[\S\s]* matches the remaining charactersParentheses around a part of a RE creates a group, so that the grouped match can be referred, while (?:) creates a non-referrable group.
/^([\S\s]*)(foo|bar)([\S\s]*?)$/. Thank you.str.replace(/foo|bar/,"\x034").split("\x034")
idea is replace the first occurrence with a special(invisible) String, and then split against this string.
