Check if array contains specific character

If you want to change only the original array without creating a new one, and still compatible with all browsers, including IE 11 (a arrow function item => no forEach is not supported in IE 11, without taking the merits of the response of vnbrs ):

var array = ["Escova|Corte Masculino", "Gel", "Cabelo|Corte Masculino", "Escova", "Gel", "Gel|Corte Masculino"];

for(var x=0; x<array.length; x++){
   var i = array[x];
   var idx = i.indexOf("|");
   if(~idx){
      array[x] = i.substr(idx+1);
      array.splice(x, 0, i.substr(0, idx));
   }
}

console.log(array);

You can use a loop, combined with Array.concat and String.split to separate the items with the pipe.

const arrayOriginal = ["Tomate", "Abacaxi", "Carne|Fritas"];
let novoArray = [];

arrayOriginal.forEach(item => {
  novoArray = novoArray.concat(item.split("|"));
});

The result is

["Tomate", "Abacaxi", "Carne", "Fritas"]

Personal Talk:)

Just adding here a way to do with jquery, it also uses regular expression, but it can help a lot in the task of not creating a new Array 0 /

var teste = ['Escova|Corte Masculino','Gel','Cabelo|Corte Masculino']; // Array com os dados
teste = teste.toString().replace('|',',').split(','); 

The above code is using 3 jQuery functions.

• toString() - converts array to string and separates array positions by "comma" Example: 'Brush | Cut, Male, Gel, Hair | Male Cut'
• .replace('|',',') - this function as the name already says Replaces one value with the other, that is, the first parameter by the second. In this case, the "|" by ","
• .split(',') - and finally the SPLIT function divides the String from the passed parameter, which in turn is , .

At the end the step by step is:

• Get the array and convert it to string (separating the positions with comma)
• Replace the | (pipes) per comma.
• Convert the string back into Array by dividing it every time you find a comma.

  

The big problem with this solution is that it only applies replace on the first occurrence it encounters, that is, if the array contains more than one element with | it will only replace the first. (boring, right?)

But relax, which is the regular expression to help.

.replace(/\|/g,',')

Using the regular expression causes replace to replace all occurrences of the pipe character ( | ) within the string.

If you are not familiar with the regular expression, here is some good study material: I want to learn

Anyway, the end result of the method is:

var teste = ['Escova|Corte Masculino','Gel','Cabelo|Barba']; // Array com os dados
teste = teste.toString().replace(/\|/g,',').split(','); 

I hope I have helped:)