Convert string of strings to array

Question

I need to convert this string:

'"apple","banana","yellow peach","orange"'

to an array:

["apple","banana","yellow peach","orange"]

Answer 1

Edit:

Squint's solution using JSON.parse() is fine for this example, however, if there are nested quotation marks within your string, JSON.parse() will error. For example:

var str = '"apple","banana","yellow peach","orange", "Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson"';

You will have to be aware of what your data could potentially look like. There may be instances where the inner quotations are needed and so you can't use a global replace of the quotation marks nor JSON.parse(), and you would need to do something like this:

var str = '"apple","banana","yellow peach","orange", "Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson"';
var arr = str.split(",").map(function (elem) {
  return elem.trim().replace(/^"|"$/g, ''); // regex courtesy of torazaburo =)
});
console.log(arr);