Any way to do this in JavaScript?

From	$Bill <news@todbe.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Any way to do this in JavaScript?
Date	2016-07-19 10:12 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<nmln2h$kbr$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Sent this to alt... by mistake - let's try here.

In Perl, I have:

     my ($title, $chan, $call, $sTime, $dur) = split /~~/, $el;

I've converted this to JavaScript thusly:

     var flds = el.split('~~');    // split into array, then to vars

     var title = flds[0];
     var chan =  flds[1];
     var call =  flds[2];
     var sTime = flds[3];
     var dur =   flds[4];

I was hoping for a more straightforward/cleaner syntax - something like:

     var (title, chan, call, sTime, dur) = el.split('~~'); // do it all in one like Perl

Any way to do that?

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Any way to do this in JavaScript? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-07-19 10:12 -0700
  Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? Martin Honnen <martin.honnen@gmx.de> - 2016-07-19 20:14 +0200
    Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-07-19 12:02 -0700
  Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-19 21:05 +0200
    Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-07-19 12:49 -0700
      Splitting strings (was: Any way to do this in JavaScript?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-20 00:25 +0200
        Re: Splitting strings (was: Any way to do this in JavaScript?) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-20 09:45 +0200
  Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-07-19 23:21 -0700
    Re: Any way to do this in JavaScript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-07-20 10:56 +0200

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