jQuery return first 5 words of a string without commas

Question

I'm trying to return the first 5 words of a string in a readable format, no "" or commas separating words. I'm not sure if its a regex thing or what, but I can't figure it out although its probably simple. Thanks! See what I have thus far: http://jsfiddle.net/ccnokes/GktTd/ This is the function I'm using: ``` function getWords(string){ var words = string.split(/\s+/).slice(1,5); return words; } ```

Accepted Answer

The only thing you are missing is a `join()`

Try this:

```
function getWords(str) {
    return str.split(/\s+/).slice(0,5).join(" ");
}
```

This will do something like:

```
var str = "This is a long string with more than 5 words.";
console.log(getWords(str)); // << outputs "This is a long string"
```

Take a look at this link for a further explanation of the `.join()`. function in javascript. Essentially - if you don't supply an argument, it uses the default delimiter `,`, whereas if you supply one (as I'm doing in the above example, by providing `" "` - it will use that instead. This is why the output becomes the first 5 words, separated by a space between each.

jQuery return first 5 words of a string without commas

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