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Asked: 2026-06-09T20:23:01+00:00

Having an issue with strings. I have a long string like this: Other title

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Having an issue with strings. I have a long string like this: 

"Other title of some text here name of file Date: 01/01/2011 Picture ID: UYT-2011-01 Company My company"

What I need to do is extract just the picture id , the UYT-2011-01 part. The text before and after is not a set size, could be an entire paragraph, the text after can be any length, and in fact the Picture ID itself could be anywhere from 15-20 characters long.

For my purposes, I want to extract the 15 characters in the string after the Picture ID:.

I am using Selenium IDE, so it would need to be a javascript or regexp method.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming your picture IDs don’t have spaces in them, and will always have a space after them, this regex solution should work in JavaScript:

    var longString = "Other title of some text here name of file Date: 01/01/2011 Picture ID: UYT-2011-01 Company My company";

longString.match(/Picture ID: ([^ ]*)/);

// Returns ["Picture ID: UYT-2011-01", "UYT-2011-01"]

longString.match(/Picture ID: ([^ ]*)/)[1];

// Returns "UYT-2011-01"

    Matching like this means that the picture ID can be any length, as long as it is delimited by space characters.

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