Question

I want to extract a string using RegEx in Javascript
for example

StudentName nameX = John; 

or

StudentName nameX;

I want to extract only “nameX” this is what i’ve tried so far.

var name = allName.match("StudentName(.*);|StudentName(.*)=");

what I’m getting is : “nameX = John” , but I’m not getting “nameX” only.

Answer 1

Use regex pattern inside of match

match(/StudentName\s+(\w+)/)[1]

See this demo.​​