Javascript: Convert textarea into an array

Question

How would you go about breaking up a textarea value into an array, based on the end of line separation? Use of jQuery is cool by me...

Answer 1

This should work (tested in Firefox and Google Chrome):

var arrayOfLines = $('#textAreaID').val().split('\n');

Answer 2

var stringArray = document.getElementById('textarea').value.split('\n');

Answer 3

Cross-platform way:

var area = document.getElementById("area");             
var lines = area.value.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n").split("\n");

Answer 4

You could try this function :

function textToArray(){
  var someArray = [];    
  var nameList = $("#txtArea").val();

  $.each(nameList.split(/\n/), function (i, name) {     

      // empty string check
      if(name != ""){

          someArray.push(name);

      }        
});

taken from : CONVERT TEXTAREA CONTENT TO AN ARRAY USING JQUERY

Answer 5

This method worked well:

var textArea = document.getElementById("textAreaId");
var arrayFromTextArea = textArea.value.split(String.fromCharCode(10));