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Extract words with RegEx

I am new with RegEx, but it would be very useful to use it for my project. What I want to do in Javascript is this :
I have this kind of string "/this/is/an/example" and I would like to extract each word of that string, that is to say :
"/this/is/an/example" -> this, is, an, example. And then use each word.
Up to now, I did :
var str = "/this/is/a/test";
var patt1 = /\/*/g;
var result = str.match(patt1);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = result;
and it returns me : /,,,,,/,,,/,,/,,,,,
I know that I will have to use .slice function next if I can identify the position of each "/" by using search for instance but using search it only returns me the index of the first "/" that is to say in this case 0.
I cannot find out.
Any Idea ?
Thanks in advance !

Use split()
The split() method splits a String object into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings, using a specified separator string to determine where to make each split.
var str = "/this/is/a/test";
var array = str.split('/');
console.log(array);
In case you want to do with regex.
var str = "/this/is/a/test";
var patt1 = /(\w+)/g;
var result = str.match(patt1)
console.log(result);

Well I guess it depends on your definition of 'word', there is a 'word character' match which might be what you want:
var patt1 = /(\w+)/g;
Here is a working example of the regex
Full JS example:
var str = "/this/is/a/test";
var patt1 = /(\w+)/g;
var match = str.match(patt1);
var output = match.join(", ");
console.log(output);

You can use this regex: /\b[^\d\W]+\b/g, to have a specific word just access the index in the array. e.g result[0] == this
var str = "/this/is/a/test";
var patt1 = /\b[^\d\W]+\b/g;
var result = str.match(patt1);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = result;
<span id="demo"></span>

Need a Regex to get select name

I have a variable which stores some string.
eg var string = '<select mltiple="" name="multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[]" aria-required="true">';
i want to get multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[] using regex expression. Thanks in advance

You can do it this way as well (not using any regex here)
var string = '<select mltiple="" name="multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[]" aria-required="true">';
console.log($($.parseHTML(string)).attr("name")); //gives 'multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[]'

You can use this regex to retrieve that value:
var matches = /name="(.*)"\s/gi.exec(string);
console.log(matches[1]); // = "multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[]"
You would obviously need to make the code more robust to deal with cases where the attribute is not found.
You could also use jQuery:
console.log($(string).attr('name'));

See this working regex.
Here is the javascript code.
var re = /name="([^"]*)/g;
var str = '<select mltiple="" name="multi_select_frV6Yzed4dxzsotOvJ5cXg9Aa[]" aria-required="true">';
var m;
m = re.exec(str);
alert(m[1]);

How to get desired javascript string

I have a JavaScript string sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#
I want to get last part of the string: vwemployees through RegExp or from any JavaScript function.
and also want to remove that last keyword from string so that next time string will be like this sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#
I have tried
var str = "sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#";
var array = url.split('/');
var lastsegment = array[array.length-1];
and get vwemployees last segment but the string remains the same
sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#
It should be sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c# when above code runs.
Please suggest a way to do this in JavaScript

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/satpalsingh/ykBCG/
var str = "sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#";
//Assuming # as seperator
var array = str.split('#');
//Clear empty value in array
var newArray = array.filter(function(v){return v!==''});
var lastsegment = newArray[newArray.length-1];
alert(lastsegment);
//output is "vwemployees"

<script type="text/javascript">
var str = "sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#";
var arr = str.split("#");
alert(arr[arr.length-2]);
</script>

split function will do the job for you.

use split() , splice() to remove from array and join() to join them back again
var str="sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#";
var reqvalue=str.split('#');
alert(reqvalue[3]);
reqvalue.splice(3,1);
alert(reqvalue.join('#'))
fiddle here

The split function can help you: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp
yourString.split("#");
You will get an array with your values: sentrptg2c,appqueue,sentrptg2c,vwemployees
After that you just have to remove the last element, and rebuild your string from this array.

var str = "sentrptg2c#appqueue#sentrptg2c#vwemployees#";
alert(str);
var arr = str.split('#');
var lastsegment = arr[arr.length-2];
alert(lastsegment);
var new_str = str.replace(lastsegment+'#', '');
alert(new_str);

Javascript regex value search

After reading the post here, I tried to get the value by regex as below:
var myString = "<a href='/search.html?id=HDJ&area=ASD&estate=JKG&ppt=3'></a>";
var myRegexp = /&estate=(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
match[1]
The result was JKG&propertytype=3'></a>, but I only want JKG. Strictly speaking I want the value between &estate= and &ppt Could someone suggest how to do that?
Thanks

A Regular Expression:
/&estate=(.*?)&ppt=/g
Note: I wouldn't recommend using regular expressions to parse query strings. It's brittle. Consider if the variables in the query string change order. If that can be the case, I recommend reading - Parse query string in JavaScript.

do:
var myString = "<a href='/search.html?id=HDJ&area=ASD&estate=JKG&ppt=3'></a>";
var myRegexp = /estate=(.*)&ppt=/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
console.log( match[1] );

If only the solution is important then you can use the following:
var myString = "<a href='/search.html?id=HDJ&area=ASD&estate=JKG&ppt=3'></a>";
var indx1 = mystring.indexOf("&estate=") + 8;
var indx2 = mystring.indexOf("&ppt");
var neededString = mystring.substring(indx1, indx2);

Just exclude ampersands from the selection:
var myRegexp = /&estate=([^&]+)/g;
You might want to change it to this, in case estate is the first parameter:
var myRegexp = /[\?&]estate=([^&]+)/g;

jsFiddle
Based on your result value, just split it at the ampersand, no new or alternate regex required.
JavaScript:
var myString = "<a href='/search.html?id=HDJ&area=ASD&estate=JKG&ppt=3'></a>";
var myRegexp = /&estate=(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
var value = match[1].split('&')[0];
alert( value );

Search through string with Javascript

Say I have a string like this:
jJKld-xxx-JKl122
Using javascript, how can I get on what's in-between the - characters? In others words, all I need to do is put whatever is xxx into a variable.
Thanks

If the string is always in that format, this will work:
var foo = 'jJKld-xxx-JKl122';
var bar = foo.split('-')[1]; // = xxx

just try it with this simple regex
var str = 'jJKld-xxx-JKl122';
var xxx = str.replace( /^[^\-]*-|-[^\-]*$/g, '' );

You can simply use the following regex to get the result
var myString = "jJKld-xxx-JKl122";
var myRegexp = /(?:^|\s*)-(.*?)-(?:^|\s*)/g;
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);
alert(match[1]);
See the demo here