Get text between 2nd and 3rd delimiter in a string - Java script

Question

I have a string like this - tom|harry|john|elizabeth|hopkin|wayne

I would like to extract the value john and wayne from this string and store in variables. How can I do that in jquery or javascript?

Answer 1

If you know which "index" john and wayne is, you can use split() to make it an array and get it from an array with index.

var str = "tom|harry|john|elizabeth|hopkin|wayne"
var arr = str.split("|");
var third = arr[2],
    last = arr[arr.length-1];