Question

I have a string that will look something like this:

I'm sorry the code "codehere" is not valid

I need to get the value inside the quotes inside the string. So essentially I need to get the codehere and store it in a variable.

After some researching it looks like I could loop through the string and use .charAt(i) to find the quotes and then pull the string out one character at a time in between the quotes.

However I feel there has to be a simpler solution for this out there. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use indexOf and lastIndexOf to get the position of the quotes:

var openQuote  = myString.indexOf('"'),
    closeQuote = myString.lastIndexOf('"');

Then you can validate they are not the same position, and use substring to retrieve the code:

var code = myString.substring(openQuote, closeQuote + 1);