How to split string with newline ('\n') in Node?

Within Node, how do I split a string using newline ('\n') ? I have a simple string like var a = "test.js\nagain.js" and I need to get ["test.js", "again.js"]. I tried

a.split("\n");
a.split("\\n");
a.split("\r\n");
a.split("\r");

but the above doesn't work.

Try splitting on a regex like /\r?\n/ to be usable by both Windows and UNIX systems.

> "a\nb\r\nc".split(/\r?\n/)
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]

If the file is native to your system (certainly no guarantees of that), then Node can help you out:

var os = require('os');

a.split(os.EOL);

This is usually more useful for constructing output strings from Node though, for platform portability.