30-seconds-of-code/snippets/splitLines.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
splitLines	string,regexp,beginner	2017-12-29T12:58:58+02:00	2020-10-22T20:24:30+03:00

Splits a multiline string into an array of lines.

• Use String.prototype.split() and a regular expression to match line breaks and create an array.

const splitLines = str => str.split(/\r?\n/);

splitLines('This\nis a\nmultiline\nstring.\n');
// ['This', 'is a', 'multiline', 'string.' , '']