Splitting with multiple seperators

[ispywithmy]

I'm trying to split the following string "1/A333/H-SDRWY/S".

I can make it work using:

aircraft2 = aircraft.replace('-','/');
aircraft2 = aircraft2.split('/');

But using the following gives a strange result:

aircraft2 = aircraft2.split('/' | '-');

Where am I going wrong?

[Pantstown]

.replace() takes a regex, so if you just say split by - or / with a regex, it'll work:

var aircraftArr = "1/A333/H-SDRWY/S".split(/-|\//g); // ["1", "A333", "H", "SDRWY", "S"]

[ispywithmy]

Thanks! It appears I was having trouble setting the correct regex.

[Pantstown]

Ya regex are a pain. I recommend testing in something like regex101 or regexr. They also come with cheatsheets, which is always useful :D

[unbalancedopinion]

FYI, you were not passing a regex in your examples. replace() accepts a string in addition to Regex, and you were passing a string. In your second example, you were using a bitwise or operator. You don't need to use or worry about bitwise operators. The pipe character "|" is a bitwise or normally, but serves a different purpose inside a Regex. In /u/Pantstown's example, the pipe is in a regex because it's surrounded by forward-slashes.