Question

I have a string like this:

var examplestring = 'Person said "How are you doing?" ';

How can I get the string inside the double quotes. Specifically, I want a var that is set to How are you doing? in this case.

Answer 1

var quotedString = examplestring.split('"')[1];

This will split on each “, into the following

quotedString[0] = "Person said ";
quotedString[1] = "How are you doing?"
quotedString[2] = " ";

And then select from index 1 of the new array, returning “How are you doing?” (without the quotes).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split