# Splitting string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/splitting-string/331745>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 11, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/splitting-string/331745 "2013-10-11T02:40:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ronmac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@ronmac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ronmac)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/splitting-string/331745/1 "2013-10-11T02:40:40Z")

</div>

This probably has a simple solution. I am trying to split a string to get two strings like this;  
var ab = (“222 333”).split(/\s/)

I want to get:  
var a=“222”  
var b=“333”

thanks in advance