var myString= "A word character is 0123456789, ABCDEFGHIGKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, and _"; var myArray = myString.split(/\s/g); console.log(myArray); /*logs ["A", "word", "character", "is", "0123456789,", "ABCDEFGHIGKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,", "and", "_"] */