How to split First name and Last name in JavaScript

In this short article, we will learn to split the first name and last name from a name string using JavaScript.

Sometimes we want to separate the name string entered by a user in a form to its first and second name before storing it in our database.

So to split the first and last names of a person, we use the split() method in JavaScript

The split() method is used to split a string into an array of substrings and returns a new array. The original string is not changed using this method.

We pass a separator to the split() method to tell Javascript at which character or point we want our string to split.

Syntax:

string.split(separator)

Now using this method we can separate the first and last name from a string.

Example:

const name = "John Wick"
const nameArr = name.split(" ");
const firstName = nameArr[0];
const lastName = nameArr[1];

console.log(`First Name: ${firstName}, Last Name : ${lastName}`)

Output: