Split a string after each group of characters

Question

In Javascript, I want to split a string into several segments based on the content.

Each segment is a random set of character, and ends with a unicode superscript character.

An example string would be:

this⁵²is¹an³⁶⁻³⁵example²⁴string³¹

And the result would be:

this⁵²
is¹
an³⁶⁻³⁵
example²⁴
string³¹

Each group containing ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁻ marks the end of each segment.

You could just use regular regex-y things. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35976910/regex-to-replace-all-superscript-numbers — The Dembinski, Sep 01 '16 at 17:00

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '16 at 17:07

Use String#match(), like this:

var string = 'this⁵²is¹an³⁶⁻³⁵example²⁴string³¹';

// regex that looks for groups of characters
// containing first a sequence of characters not among '¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁻',
// then a sequence of character among '¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁻'
var regex = /([^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁻]+[¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁻]+)/g;
var groups = string.match(regex);

console.log(groups);
// prints:
// [ 'this⁵²', 'is¹', 'an³⁶⁻³⁵', 'example²⁴', 'string³¹' ]

Split a string after each group of characters

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