JAVASCRIPT

array from string js

// If you want to split on a specific character in a string:
const stringToSplit = '01-02-2020';
console.log(stringToSplit.split('-')); 
// ["01", "02", "2020"]

// If you want to split every character:
const stringToSplit = '01-02-2020';
console.log(Array.from(stringToSplit));
// ["0", "1", "-", "0", "2", "-", "2", "0", "2", "0"]

get array from string javascript

const string = 'hi there';

const usingSplit = string.split('');
const usingSpread = [...string];
const usingArrayFrom = Array.from(string);
const usingObjectAssign = Object.assign([], string);

// Result
// [ 'h', 'i', ' ', 't', 'h', 'e', 'r', 'e' ]
// From https://www.samanthaming.com/tidbits/83-4-ways-to-convert-string-to-character-array/