Question

Given a string, I want to use a regular expression to tokenize it. The pattern is as follows: any character (including new line, etc.), until “<“, followed by a space zero or more times, followed by “%”.
I tried

var patt = /(.)*<(\s)*%/;

but it does not yield the desired result. I would appreciate an explanation along with the pattern.

Answer 1

Use this:

"some string".split(/.*<\s*%/);