Given the following string:
const myString = "This is my comment content. [~firstName.lastName]";
What is a javascript regex to extract the “firstName” and “lastName”?
What is a javascript regex to extract the content minus the “[~firstName.lastName]”?
I’m rubbish with Regex.
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Answer
You could target each name separately. match
will return the complete match as the first element of the array, and the groupings specified by the (
and )
in the regex as the subsequent elements.
const str = 'This is my comment content. [~firstName.lastName]'; const regex = /[~(.+).(.+)]/; console.log(str.match(regex));
Or you could target just the characters within the brackets and then split
on the .
.
const str = 'This is my comment content. [~firstName.lastName]'; const regex = /[~(.+)]/; console.log(str.match(regex)[1].split('.'));