arrays - JavaScript: split() but keep comma, dot, other delimiter

Question

I'm trying to parse a String which is a quote. So basically it looks like that:

quote.split(/[s.,]+/)

That works perfectly and returns an Array as expected. But since this is a quote I don't want to loose the "," but have them as a separate element in the Array. How do I do this?

Cheers and have a nice Sunday!

Answer 1

Just put parantheses around your match group to keep your delimiter as separate elements:

"one,two.three four".split(/([,.s])/);

will return

["one", ",", "two", ".", "three", " ", "four"]