I have a textarea where the user can write up to 1000 characters. I need to get the jQuery('#textarea').val() and create an array where each item is a line of the textarea's value. That means:

This is a nice line inside the textarea.

This is another line.

(let's asume this line is empty - it should be ignored).

Someone left more than 2 new lines above.

Should be converted to a JavaScript array:

var texts = [];

text[0] = 'This is a nice line inside the textarea.';

text[1] = 'This is another line.';

text[2] = 'Someone left more than 2 new lines above.';

That way they can be easily imploded for to querystring (this is the qs format required by the provider):

example.com/process.php?q=[This is a nice line inside the textarea.,This is another line.,Someone left more than 2 new lines above.]

I tried both the phpjs explode() and string.split(n) approaches but they doesn't take care of the extra new lines (aka line breakes). Any ideas?