Question

Is there any way to extract text between 2 symbols? I have been told to use:

var email = "[e-mail]";
document.write(email.substring(.,@));

Using substring seems to only work with the position of the character and not symbols. I just want to extract the characters between the “.” and “@”

Answer 1

You could use RegExp:

var email = "[e-mail]";
email.replace(/.+\.(.+)@.+/, '$1'); // surname

Or you could use substring:

email.substring(email.indexOf('.')+1, email.indexOf('@'))