Question

I am clueless about regular expressions, but I know that they’re the right tool for what I’m trying to do here: I’m trying to extract a numerical value from a string like this one:

approval=not requested^assignment_group=12345678901234567890123456789012^category=Test^contact_type=phone^

Ideally, I’d extract the following from it: 12345678901234567890123456789012 None of the regexes I’ve tried have worked. How can I get the value I want from this string?

Answer 1

mystr.match(/assignment_group=([^\^]+)/)[1]; //=> "12345678901234567890123456789012"

This will find everything from the end of “assignment_group=” up to the next caret ^ symbol.