Question

Hey. First question here, probably extremely lame, but I totally suck in regular expressions 🙁

I want to extract the text from a series of strings that always have only alphabetic characters before and after a hyphen:

string = "some-text"

I need to generate separate strings that include the text before AND after the hyphen. So for the example above I would need string1 = "some" and string2 = "text"

I found this and it works for the text before the hyphen, now I only need the regex for the one after the hyphen.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You don’t need regex for that, you can just split it instead.

var myString = "some-text";
var splitWords =  myString.split("-");

splitWords[0] would then be “some”, and splitWords[1] will be “text”.

If you actually have to use regex for whatever reason though – the $ character marks the end of a string in regex, so -(.*)$ is a regex that will match everything after the first hyphen it finds till the end of the string. That could actually be simplified that to just -(.*) too, as the .* will match till the end of the string anyway.