Question

I have a string that looks like this: “the word you need is ‘hello’ “.

What’s the best way to put ‘hello’ (but without the quotes) into a javascript variable? I imagine that the way to do this is with regex (which I know very little about) ?

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

Use match():

> var s =  "the word you need is 'hello' ";
> s.match(/'([^']+)'/)[1];
"hello"

This will match a starting ', followed by anything except ', and then the closing ', storing everything in between in the first captured group.