Question

I have the following string : ‘user-status status-avail left top-pos‘.
I’d like to lookup this string searching for ‘status-something’ where something can have different forms like ‘busy’ ‘not_busy’ and return this specific string. How should I write my regex and should I use split or match for this task ?

I’ve tried :

str.match(/status-([a-z]+)/);

but I get :

["status-avail", "avail"] in return, and not only ‘status-avail’.

Answer 1

Remove the parentheses from your regex. (or just get the first item found)