Question

How can I extract the word following “text:” using a regular expression? The input is something like:

some string some string (text:the_word_i_want_to_get some string) some string
some string some string (text:next_word_i_want_to_get some string) some string

and the output should be:

["the_word_i_want_to_get", "next_word_i_want_to_get"]

Answer 1

You can match the first occurrence of your word like this:

var input = "some string...",// Assume this is what you wrote in your question.
    match = input.match(/text:(\w+)/)[1];

To get all of the matches, you could put it in a loop:

while (/text:(\w+)/) {
  matches.push(input.match(/text:(\w+)/)[1]);
  input = input.replace(/text:(\w+)/, "");
}