Question

I want to find all #tags in a piece of text (using javascript) and use them. The regex myString.match(/#\w+/g) works, but then I also get the #. How can I get only the word without the #?

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

var code='...';
var patt=/#(\w+)/g;
var result=patt.exec(code);

while (result != null) {
    alert(result[1]);
    result = patt.exec(code);    
}

The ( and ) denote groups. You can then access these groups and see what they contain. See here and here for additional information.