How to place split elements into an array?

Question

If I have a string of names separated by commas, how do I separate them all and place them as individual elements in a new array?

For example--

var str="How,are,you,doing,today?";
document.write(str.split(","));

I'd like to put each of those elements straight into an array. What's the way to do this?

• epascarello: What are you learning from that it uses document.write? Lose that book/site and find something else.
• nnnnnn: Google search tip: if you add " mdn" after a Javascript keyword or function name (e.g., "split mdn") the first search result is almost always the Mozilla Developer Network doco page about that keyword or function
• RobG: @epascarello—likely the OP is just using document.write as a convenient output method.
• porque_no_les_deux: Correct, but I did originally copy the example from w3schools, entertainingly.

Answer 1

Just assign them to a variable when you split them:

var new_array = str.split(",");

Answer 2

If you're talking about how to you just declare it as an array, you would do that like this:

var strArray = ["How","are","you","doing","today?"];