How can I split text in parts in javascript

Question

How can I split text in parts in javascript: I have

Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*), purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange), 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique.

I want ths split in : text[0]= Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*) text[1]= purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange) text[2]= 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique

So it is split with "," but"," is also used somewhere else!, and you have to skip that!!

Answer 1

You can replace ), with some special character preserving ) at the end and then split() it:

 var str = "Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*), purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange), 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique."; var text = str.replace(/\\),/g, ')&').split('&').map(x=>x.trim()); console.log(text); 

Answer 2

One option would be to use .match instead, and alternate between (non-comma, non-parentheses characters) and (parentheses \\( followed by non- ) characters, followed by a ) ). This way, commas will only result in a new item in the array result if the comma is outside of parentheses:

 const str = `Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*), purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange), 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique.`; console.log( str.match(/(?:[^,(]+|\\([^)]+\\))+/g) ); 

To additionally trim out the leading spaces:

 const str = `Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*), purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange), 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique.`; console.log( str.match(/(?:[^ ,(][^,(]+|\\([^)]+\\))+/g) ); 

Answer 3

Well, unless you have something specific to split the array in. it can't be done

For now i see that string can be split on "," if it does not occur inside the "()"

So here is the code for that

var str = "Ingrédients Purée de fruits (mangue 25%, banane*), purs jus de fruits (pomme*, fruits de la passion* 18%, orange), 100% des ingrédients agricoles issus de l'agriculture biologique.";
var regex = /,(?![^(]*\)) /;
var splitString = str.split(regex);
console.log(splitString);