How to get abc from "abc def"?

Question

"abc def"
"abcd efgh"

If I have a large string with a space that separates two substrings of varying length, what's the best way to extract each of the substrings from the larger string?

Because this is a string rather than an array, array syntax s[0] will only retrieve the first letter of the string ('a'), rather than the first substring.

Answer 1

Use the split method of the String object:

"abc def".split(' ')[0] // Returns "abc"

Works like this:

"string".split('separator') // Returns array

Answer 2

var arr = "abc def".split(" ");
document.write(arr[0]);

should work

Answer 3

Both above Answer's are right I am just putting it so that user can do some operation with every token. All you need to add a loop for that.

function splitStr(str){
    var arr = str.split(" ");
    for(i=0 ;i < arr.length ; i++){
        //You will get a token here 
        // var token = arr[i];
        // Do some thing with this token
    }
}

One can return the array for any other operation in other function as

function splitStr(str){
    var arr = str.split(" ");
    return arr;
}