Can't Split('|')

[mecha_viper]

can we really not use | for splitting?
I've been debugging my code for the whole day not knowing why it does not work
until I found out the error was splitting with |  it works in w3school.. why not in alfresco?

[rjohnson]

If you are trying to do this in a webscript then it will be because Rhino does not support it. Javascript on the server is run using Rhino which is a very old version of Javascript with a few anomalies.

That said, I am very surprised that you cannot split on |

Have you tested this in Javascript Console?

[mechaviper]

this was my old account. I resolved this by replacing | with #
and then split it with #. I find it weird that it could split with others but not with |