Question

After reading the post here, I tried to get the value by regex as below:

var myString = "<a href='/search.html?id=HDJ&area=ASD&estate=JKG&ppt=3'></a>";
var myRegexp = /&estate=(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
match[1]

The result was JKG&propertytype=3'></a>, but I only want JKG. Strictly speaking I want the value between &estate= and &ppt Could someone suggest how to do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

A Regular Expression:

/&estate=(.*?)&ppt=/g

Note: I wouldn’t recommend using regular expressions to parse query strings. It’s brittle. Consider if the variables in the query string change order. If that can be the case, I recommend reading – Parse query string in JavaScript.