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  Word Split

  Posted by Ilya Sire on March 3, 2020 at 2:49 pm

  Hello,
  I got text wrote
  “My name is Zuki
  Rander”

  i try to split word using split(” “), it produce result as
  My, name, is, Zuki
  Rander

  It count Zuki Rander as 1 index. How can i get Zuki index separated from Rander index?

  Thanks

  Tomas Bumbulevičius replied 6 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Scott Mcgee

  March 3, 2020 at 3:29 pm

  Unless someone says differently.

  split(” “) splits based on a space gap. Because Rander is on the next line the space isn’t taken into account and you need to include a split(“\r”). I don’t know how to use multiple delimiters, but Regex will work

  text.sourceText.split(/\s/);
• 

  Ilya Sire

  March 4, 2020 at 12:36 am

  it worked and text layer become My,name,is,Zuki,Rander

  But how can i get this structure without it get rid new line?
  My, name, is, Zuki,
  Rander

  it separate Zuki index but still maintaining Rander as new line
• 

  Scott Mcgee

  March 4, 2020 at 8:44 am

  I can’t think of a tidier way to do this other than this then

  r = text.sourceText.split(“\r”);
  r[1].split(” “)[0]

  So your first [ ] is referring to line and the second [ ] is referring to word.
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  Tomas Bumbulevičius

  March 4, 2020 at 8:50 am

  Hey Ilya, can you specify what later you are doing with split text array? Because, you could simply ‘build it’ back into a string again, just comma separated + return carriage. Yet, this will depend on what you are doing with it futher.

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