Question

I’ve a document from which I need to extract some data. Document contain strings like these

Text:"How secure is my information?"

I need to extract text which is in double quotes after the literal Text:

How secure is my information?

How do I do this with regex in Javascript

Answer 1

Lookbehind assertions were recently finalised for JavaScript and will be in the next publication of the ECMA-262 specification. They are supported in Chrome 66 (Opera 53), but no other major browsers at the time of writing (caniuse).

var str = 'Text:"How secure is my information?"',
    reg = /(?<=Text:")[^"]+(?=")/;

str.match(reg)[0];
// -> How secure is my information?

Older browsers do not support lookbehind in JavaScript regular expression. You have to use capturing parenthesis for expressions like this one instead:

var str = 'Text:"How secure is my information?"',
    reg = /Text:"([^"]+)"/;

str.match(reg)[1];
// -> How secure is my information?

This will not cover all the lookbehind assertion use cases, however.