---
layout: page
title: "JavaScript str_split function"
comments: true
sharing: true
footer: true
alias:
- /functions/view/str_split:530
- /functions/view/str_split
- /functions/view/530
- /functions/str_split:530
- /functions/530
---
<!-- Generated by Rakefile:build -->
A JavaScript equivalent of PHP's str_split

{% codeblock strings/str_split.js lang:js https://raw.github.com/kvz/phpjs/master/functions/strings/str_split.js raw on github %}
function str_split (string, split_length) {
  // From: http://phpjs.org/functions
  // +     original by: Martijn Wieringa
  // +     improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
  // +     bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
  // +      revised by: Theriault
  // +        input by: Bjorn Roesbeke (http://www.bjornroesbeke.be/)
  // +      revised by: Rafał Kukawski (http://blog.kukawski.pl/)
  // *       example 1: str_split('Hello Friend', 3);
  // *       returns 1: ['Hel', 'lo ', 'Fri', 'end']
  if (split_length === null) {
    split_length = 1;
  }
  if (string === null || split_length < 1) {
    return false;
  }
  string += '';
  var chunks = [],
    pos = 0,
    len = string.length;
  while (pos < len) {
    chunks.push(string.slice(pos, pos += split_length));
  }

  return chunks;
}
{% endcodeblock %}

 - [Raw function on GitHub](https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/blob/master/functions/strings/str_split.js)

Please note that php.js uses JavaScript objects as substitutes for PHP arrays, they are 
the closest match to this hashtable-like data structure. 

Please also note that php.js offers community built functions and goes by the 
[McDonald's Theory](https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/9216e1c9da7d). We'll put online 
functions that are far from perfect, in the hopes to spark better contributions. 
Do you have one? Then please just: 

 - [Edit on GitHub](https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/edit/master/functions/strings/str_split.js)

### Example 1
This code
{% codeblock lang:js example %}
str_split('Hello Friend', 3);
{% endcodeblock %}

Should return
{% codeblock lang:js returns %}
['Hel', 'lo ', 'Fri', 'end']
{% endcodeblock %}


### Other PHP functions in the strings extension
{% render_partial _includes/custom/strings.html %}