I have this dynamic list of countries:

<div>Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador</div>

I want to add the countries as options to a combobox dropdown using the following format:

options: [
     { data: 'Argentina' },
     { data: 'Brazil' },
     { data: 'Colombia' },
     { data: 'Ecuador' }
];

I have figured out how to split/join the list items to show the desired array, but not how to populate the dropdown.

https://jsfiddle.net/rj025tkb/

Any help would be appreciated as I’ve been looking for a solutions for days now. Preferably without using JSON.