Removing a leading or trailing empty-string in a regex split

What is the most common way to deal with something such as the following?

const names = 'Harry Trump  ;Fred Barney; Helen Rigby ;   Bill Abel ;Chris Hand '
let re = /\s*(?:;|$)\s*/;
console.log(names.split(re));
// ["Harry Trump",  "Fred Barney",  "Helen Rigby",  "Bill Abel",  "Chris Hand",  ""]
//                                                                              ^^^^^

>Solution :

Just add filter after split, something like this:

const names = 'Harry Trump  ;Fred Barney; Helen Rigby ;   Bill Abel ;Chris Hand '
let re = /\s*(?:;|$)\s*/;

console.log(names.split(re).filter(Boolean));
// ["Harry Trump",  "Fred Barney",  "Helen Rigby",  "Bill Abel",  "Chris Hand"]

Keep in mind that this will filter out any other negative values as well like null, undefined, false, 0 etc.