Question

How do I obtain a trimmed down inputted text ?
eg,

var txt = “Hello, how are you???”;

To produce result like :

” how are you”

Here, I would like to remove the earlier “Hello,” part and remove the later “???” part. I cannot directly use the character positions because it could be any word before comma which user inputs.

Answer 1

You can remove everything up to the comma using a regular exprssion:

var txt = "Hello, how are you???";

alert(txt.replace(/^[^,]*,/,''));

You can remove any trailing question marks using:

var txt = "Hello, how are you???";

alert(txt.replace(/\?*$/,''));

and you can combine them using:

var txt = "Hello, how are you???";

alert(txt.replace(/(^[^,]*,)|(\?*$)/g,''));