diff --git a/js/js.libraries/src/core/string.kt b/js/js.libraries/src/core/string.kt
index 90e9a06f2e0..ac110beeb00 100644
--- a/js/js.libraries/src/core/string.kt
+++ b/js/js.libraries/src/core/string.kt
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ deprecated("Use split(Regex) instead.")
 library("splitString")
 public fun String.splitWithRegex(regex: String, limit: Int): Array<String> = noImpl
 
+deprecated("Use split(Regex) instead.")
+library("splitString")
+public fun String.split(regex: String): Array<String> = noImpl
+
+deprecated("Use split(Regex) instead.")
+library("splitString")
+public fun String.split(regex: String, limit: Int): Array<String> = noImpl
+
 
 native public fun String.substring(beginIndex : Int) : String = noImpl
 native public fun String.substring(beginIndex : Int, endIndex : Int) : String = noImpl
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/Strings.kt b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/Strings.kt
index 410c974ae7a..b673fd56f6f 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/Strings.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/Strings.kt
@@ -922,10 +922,6 @@ public fun String.splitToSequence(vararg delimiters: String, ignoreCase: Boolean
  * the beginning to the end of this string, and matches at each position the first element in [delimiters]
  * that is equal to a delimiter in this instance at that position.
  */
-public fun String.split(vararg delimiters: String, ignoreCase: Boolean = false, limit: Int = 0): List<String> =
-        splitToSequence(*delimiters, ignoreCase = ignoreCase, limit = limit).toList()
-
-deprecated("Use split(delimiters) instead.")
 public fun String.splitBy(vararg delimiters: String, ignoreCase: Boolean = false, limit: Int = 0): List<String> =
         splitToSequence(*delimiters, ignoreCase = ignoreCase, limit = limit).toList()
 
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/StringsJVM.kt b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/StringsJVM.kt
index f5793da5575..c2237f76778 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/StringsJVM.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/StringsJVM.kt
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ public fun String.split(regex: Pattern, limit: Int = 0): List<String>
     require(limit >= 0, { "Limit must be non-negative, but was $limit" } )
     return regex.split(this, if (limit == 0) -1 else limit).asList()
 }
+/**
+ * Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression.
+ */
+deprecated("Convert an argument to regex with toRegex or use splitBy instead.")
+public fun String.split(regex: String): Array<String> = split(regex.toRegex()).toTypedArray()
+
 
 /**
  * Returns a substring of this string starting with the specified index.
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/test/text/StringTest.kt b/libraries/stdlib/test/text/StringTest.kt
index d55ac51c03d..9e9c9da078c 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/test/text/StringTest.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/test/text/StringTest.kt
@@ -353,18 +353,18 @@ class StringTest {
 
 
     test fun split() {
-        assertEquals(listOf(""), "".split(";"))
+        assertEquals(listOf(""), "".splitBy(";"))
         assertEquals(listOf("test"), "test".split(*charArray()), "empty list of delimiters, none matched -> entire string returned")
-        assertEquals(listOf("test"), "test".split(*array<String>()), "empty list of delimiters, none matched -> entire string returned")
+        assertEquals(listOf("test"), "test".splitBy(*array<String>()), "empty list of delimiters, none matched -> entire string returned")
 
         assertEquals(listOf("abc", "def", "123;456"), "abc;def,123;456".split(';', ',', limit = 3))
-        assertEquals(listOf("abc", "def", "123", "456"), "abc<BR>def<br>123<bR>456".split("<BR>", ignoreCase = true))
+        assertEquals(listOf("abc", "def", "123", "456"), "abc<BR>def<br>123<bR>456".splitBy("<BR>", ignoreCase = true))
 
-        assertEquals(listOf("abc", "def", "123", "456"), "abc=-def==123=456".split("==", "=-", "="))
+        assertEquals(listOf("abc", "def", "123", "456"), "abc=-def==123=456".splitBy("==", "=-", "="))
 
-        assertEquals(listOf("", "a", "b", "c", ""), "abc".split(""))
-        assertEquals(listOf("", "a", "b", "b", "a", ""), "abba".split("", "a"))
-        assertEquals(listOf("", "", "b", "b", "", ""), "abba".split("a", ""))
+        assertEquals(listOf("", "a", "b", "c", ""), "abc".splitBy(""))
+        assertEquals(listOf("", "a", "b", "b", "a", ""), "abba".splitBy("", "a"))
+        assertEquals(listOf("", "", "b", "b", "", ""), "abba".splitBy("a", ""))
     }
 
     test fun splitToLines() {