regex / javascript question

Hobbes

Greasemonkey again.

I've pulled in a DIV InnerHTML to a var.

Now I want to find occurrences of a string surrounded by tokens.

Example:

part number: 00000 - description -

So the same part for every reference of it would be the bits in red.

So anyone know the regex to do this? Also do I need to do a function for this? As I tried match('part number^') as a test but that only returned 1 instance which wasn't in an array.

IRLConor

Hobbes wrote: »

Greasemonkey again.

I've pulled in a DIV InnerHTML to a var.

Now I want to find occurrences of a string surrounded by tokens.

Example:

part number: 00000 - description -

So the same part for every reference of it would be the bits in red.

So anyone know the regex to do this? Also do I need to do a function for this? As I tried match('part number^') as a test but that only returned 1 instance which wasn't in an array.

So with that string above you want to extract the "00000 - description" portion?

If so, I've tested this and it works:

var testString = "part number: 00000 - description -";
var regex = /part number:\s*([^-]+-[^-]+)-/;
var result = regex.exec(testString);
if (result != null) {
    alert("Captured \"" + result[1] + "\"");
} else {
    alert("Did not match!");
}

Hobbes

Well I'd settle with just the number tbh.

I tried that and it kind of worked for the first, but second item in the array was the same string?

Ginger

Have a look at regulazy .. dead handy for helping you with regular expressions

Hobbes

Cheers! Solved it straight up.. that is going to remove so much heart ache from me.

For those interested.
http://tools.osherove.com/Default.aspx?tabid=182

Hobbes

I found that the plugin Firebug is way better for doing regex coding on the fly.

Evil Phil

Firebug's the bomb.