History of String.prototype.split() Revision history for: English (US) Aug 31, 2016, 2:47:15 PM CarloMartini Specify that split(/\s*;\s*/) removes spaces, but the semicolon too. Previous Jul 24, 2016, 4:10:05 AM eduardoboucas Add "Return value" section as per Bug 1287421 Previous Jun 15, 2016, 8:08:33 AM anlex-N Previous Jun 15, 2016, 8:00:09 AM anlex-N Previous May 28, 2016, 1:25:03 PM shakvaal Previous Feb 3, 2016, 3:57:52 AM fscholz Technical review completed. Previous Jan 31, 2016, 8:26:31 AM thefourtheye making sure that the text conforms to the Spec https://es5.github.io/#x15.5.4.14 Previous Jan 4, 2016, 8:13:31 AM fscholz add ES draft Previous Nov 22, 2015, 3:17:04 PM Tyler-Murphy The behavior of ''.split('') is surprising. Previous Jul 13, 2015, 10:18:55 AM fscholz fix compat parsing error; cleanup