Question

I am working in Jquery

Is it possible to take a fragment from String variable? such as:

var text = "azerty uiop hello qsdf ghjklm wxcvbn";

I want take “hello” with 5 symboles before and after:

uiop Hello qsdf

Answer 1

This should work:

var text = "azerty uiop hello qsdf ghjklm wxcvbn";
console.log((text.match(/.{0,5}hello.{0,5}/) || [''])[0]); // uiop hello qsdf