Given these two strings:

var a = November 5, 1916;

var b = October 5–10, 1592;

I am doing:

b.replace(' ', '').split(' ');

a.replace(' ', '').split(' ');

But I still get a comma and no white space. I need to be able to remove ALL commas from those strings and keep the white space in order to have:

var resultA = November 5 1916;

var resultB = October 5–10 1592;

update

I do need the split() afterwards as I need each string in an array.