Why is white space not found in my NodeJS program? - string

Question

For some obscure reason, my str.split(" ") command doesn't seem to work. I've been trying to debug the situation for a while now and can't seem to find the solution. Let me start off by saying that, unfortunately, I can't replicate the error. I've tried creating a JSFiddle, but it works correctly.
Here's my problem: I've got a JSObject "library" over which I'm looping to create MongoDocuments and during this "construction" I get the following:
if (payload[i].asking) {
let price = payload[i].asking
price = price.substring(1, price.length);
console.log(price);
console.log(price.indexOf(" "));
const priceArr = price.split(" ");
console.log(priceArr);
price = priceArr[0];
currency = priceArr[1];
listing.set('asking', price);
listing.set('currency', currency);
}
where:
payload is the full JSObject "library"
[i] the current JSObject
and asking, the key I'm working on, in this particular place of the code.
And here's the result:
500.00 eur
-1
[ '500.00 eur' ]
950.00 eur
-1
[ '950.00 eur' ]
5,000.00 usd
-1
[ '5,000.00 usd' ]
250.00 usd
-1
[ '250.00 usd' ]
800.00 usd
-1
[ '800.00 usd' ]
899.00 usd
-1
[ '899.00 usd' ]
3,500.00 usd
-1
[ '3,500.00 usd' ]
2,800.00 usd
-1
[ '2,800.00 usd' ]
2,250.00 usd
-1
[ '2,250.00 usd' ]
3,750.00 usd
-1
[ '3,750.00 usd' ]
1,500.00 usd
-1
[ '1,500.00 usd' ]
5,800.00 usd
-1
[ '5,800.00 usd' ]
2,500.00 usd
-1
[ '2,500.00 usd' ]
So I understand why price.split(" ") doesn't work: I apparently have no white space in the first place (indexOf(" ") === -1) but I'm not sure why and what's happening. payload[i].asking is a string alright (price.substring proves it) but I don't understand why this white space doesn't exist.

Answer 1

OK so I found an alternative, using regex, even though it doesn't solve the exact problem I describe per se:
const priceArr = price.split(/(\s+)/)
It might help someone else...