Split() not working

[thecard]

I have a string called stringexample which I want to split up into an array containing the individual words in the original string. When I try to split it up however it doesn't split as I would like: when the alert comes up, the string has been split as following: [0] = "DATE:", [1] =" 2009/05/03", [2] = "", [3] =" Hello: WORLD".

For some reason "Hello: WORLD" isn't split up into 2 strings.

Why not?

function aftersplit() {

var splitres = Array();

stringexample = "DATE: 2009/05/03  Hello: WORLD"

stringexample = stringexample.split(" ");

for(i = 0; i < stringexample.length; i++){

alert(stringexample);

}

}

 

Thanks for any help.

[salathe]

There not only space whitespace characters in that string; there are also tab characters.  Substituting space for [sPC] and tab for [TAB] the string is DATE:[sPC][TAB]2009/05/03[sPC][sPC][TAB]Hello:[TAB]WORLD (according to what I could copy/paste from your post).

 

If you want to split on any whitespace, use a regular expression like /\s+/ in split.

[thecard]

Thanks a lot

Makes sense!