Q:

How to display comma delimited JSON value as a list?

Say I have an array like this:
    var ARTISTS: Artist[] = [
      {
         "name": "Barot Bellingham",
         "shortname": "Barot_Bellingham",
         "reknown": "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture",
         "bio": "Some bio here...",
         "friends": "James, Harry, Bob"
      }

Is it possible to display values for the key “friends” as an unordered list where each friend would be it’s own list item, e.g.:
    <ul>
      <li>James</li>
      <li>Harry</li>
      <li>Bob</li>
    </ul>

I do realize the "friends" would be better stored as a nested array in order to display as a list, but I'm looking into this as a potential workaround for another issue. 
Thank you!
P.S. I'm using Angular 2.

A:

You can use String.prototype.split() to get an array of friends.
var arrayOfFriends = Artist[0].friends.split(", ");
// arrayOfFriends = ['James', 'Harry', 'Bob']

From there loop over the array and create your list

