Often in JavaScript you'll come across big long strings, that you'll more than likely want to separate certain items out into a more useful form, so then you can display them differently. Like a table for instance.
To do such an action, we can use the method, split().
Split takes a single parameter, which is the character you want to separate the string at, puts these substrings into an array, then returns the array.
Let's play around with it.
*1. First we create a string. *
*2. Next, we'll split it at every comma. *
3. Lastly, we can find the length of the new array, and receive some items from it.
*4. You can do the opposite of .split(), by using the .join() method. *
5. One of the other ways of converting an array to a string, is using the ***.toString()* method.
The .toString() method is more simple than the .join() method. It doesn't take a parameter. But, it is more limiting to use.
With the .join() method, you can specify different separators, whereas with .toString() method, it always uses a comma.
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