Question

Quick. I have a string: #user 9#I'm alive! and I want to be about to pull out “user 9”.

So far Im doing:

    if(variable.match(/\#/g)){
            console.log(variable):
    }

But the output is still the full line.

Answer 1

Use .split(), in order to pull out your desired item.

var variable = variable.split("#");
console.log(variable[1]);

.split() turns your string into an array, with the first variable as a separator.

Of course, if you just want regex alone, you could do:

console.log(variable.match(/([^#]+)/g));

This will again give you an array of the items, but a smaller one as it doesn’t use the empty value before the hash as an item. Further, as stated by @Stephen P, you will need to use a capture group(()) to capture the items you want.