Javascript regex - split string

Struggling with a regex requirement. I need to split a string into an array wherever it finds a forward slash. But not if the forward slash is preceded by an escape.

Eg, if I have this string:

hello/world

I would like it to be split into an array like so:

arrayName[0] = hello
arrayName[1] = world

And if I have this string:

hello/wo\/rld

I would like it to be split into an array like so:

arrayName[0] = hello
arr开发者_运维知识库ayName[1] = wo/rld

Any ideas?

I wouldn't use split() for this job. It's much easier to match the path components themselves, rather than the delimiters. For example:

var subject = 'hello/wo\\/rld';
var regex = /(?:[^\/\\]+|\\.)+/g;
var matched = null;
while (matched = regex.exec(subject)) {
  print(matched[0]);
}

output:

hello
wo\/rld

test it at ideone.com

The following is a little long-winded but will work, and avoids the problem with IE's broken split implementation by not using a regular expression.

function splitPath(str) {
    var rawParts = str.split("/"), parts = [];
    for (var i = 0, len = rawParts.length, part; i < len; ++i) {
        part = "";
        while (rawParts[i].slice(-1) == "\\") {
            part += rawParts[i++].slice(0, -1) + "/";
        }
        parts.push(part + rawParts[i]);
    }
    return parts;
}

var str = "hello/world\\/foo/bar";
alert( splitPath(str).join(",") );

Here's a way adapted from the techniques in this blog post:

var str = "Testing/one\\/two\\/three";
var result = str.replace(/(\\)?\//g, function($0, $1){
  return $1 ? '/' : '[****]';
}).split('[****]');

Live example

Given:

Testing/one\/two\/three

The result is:

[0]: Testing
[1]: one/two/three

That first uses the simple "fake" lookbehind to replace / with [****] and to replace \/ with /, then splits on the [****] value. (Obviously, replace [****] with anything that won't be in the string.)

/* If you are getting your string from an ajax response or a data base query, that is, the string has not been interpreted by javascript, you can match character sequences that either have no slash or have escaped slashes. If you are defining the string in a script, escape the escapes and strip them after the match. */

var s='hello/wor\\/ld';
s=s.match(/(([^\/]*(\\\/)+)([^\/]*)+|([^\/]+))/g) || [s];
alert(s.join('\n'))
s.join('\n').replace(/\\/g,'')

/*  returned value: (String)
hello
wor/ld
*/

Here's an example at rubular.com

For short code, you can use reverse to simulate negative lookbehind

function reverse(s){
  return s.split('').reverse().join('');
}

var parts = reverse(myString).split(/[/](?!\\(?:\\\\)*(?:[^\\]|$))/g).reverse();
for (var i = parts.length; --i >= 0;) { parts[i] = reverse(parts[i]); }

but to be efficient, it's probably better to split on /[/]/ and then walk the array and rejoin elements that have an escape at the end.

Something like this may take care of it for you.

var str = "/hello/wo\\/rld/";
var split = str.replace(/^\/|\\?\/|\/$/g, function(match) {
  if (match.indexOf('\\') == -1) {
    return '\x00';
  }
  return match;
}).split('\x00');       

alert(split);