Question

    var REGEX = new RegExp("(?=[hms])g")

    var TIME = _GET('t', '0').split(REGEX)

    var hours = TIME[TIME.indexOf('h')-1]

    var minutes = TIME[TIME.indexOf('m')-1]

    var seconds = TIME[TIME.indexOf('s')-1]

    var HOURS = hours?('hours: '+hours):''

    var MINUTES = minutes?('minutes: '+minutes):''

    var SECONDS = seconds?('seconds: '+seconds):''

    document.write('TIME RECIEVED:<br><br>'+HOURS+'<br>'+MINUTES+'<br>'+SECONDS)

this is the entire code. I basically wanted to see if I could mimick youtube’s video trick (put &t=XhYmZs to go to that time in a video)

The only missing thing is that I don’t know regular expressions >_<

What I need is to split the string "5h55m55s" into ['5','h','55','m','55','s'] instead of ['5', 'h55', 'm55', 's'], which is breaks my code. Oh yeah, and the _GET function is unimportant, it just obtains a string from the url, like php’s $_GET variable

So Obviously, the regex /(?=[hms])/ doesn’t work completely and I need to know how to get it to split both on the “left” and “right” of h, m, and s

Basically, the answer to this question is a regexp that splits, for example, "55m55s" into the array ['55','m','55','s']

Answer 1

You could something like…

var parts = "5h55m55s"
   .split(/(\d+)/).filter(function(a) { return a; });
   // ["5", "h", "55", "m", "55", "s"]

jsFiddle.

This will drop times of 0. If that is possible, change the filter() body to return a.length.