Question

I need to parse name and email address from a string of type
Ansh Aryan <[e-mail]>

Need a regex to be used in javascript for this purpose so that i get

name= Ansh Aryan

email = [e-mail]

Answer 1

You can use the following regex:

/([^<]+)\s<(.*)>/

Of course, if some deviation from that pattern should be allowed, you’ll have to tweak it to reflect it, but if not then it’ll be fine.

Some brief explanation of the regex:

• ([^<]+): Match and capture anything until a < symbol is found.
• \s: Match but don’t capture a single space token, which could be a space, a tab, or whatever.
• <(.*)>: Match the <...> and capture what is inside it.

This will yield an array of matches, where matches[0] should be all the input, matches[1] the name, and matches[2] the email you are looking for.