SO jQuery Fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions jQuery 1.4.3, UI 1.8.5

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css">

JavaScript

var result_string = 'a,b,c,d|1,2,3,4',
        result = result_string.split("|"),
        alpha = result[0],
        count = result[1],
        count_array = count.split(",");
    for(var i=0; i<count_array.length;i++) count_array[i] = +count_array[i];
    alert(count_array[0]+count_array[1]+count_array[2]+count_array[3]);