Pulling value from string with RegEx

Question

I have the string

text ='something here width="560" something here'

and I would like to pull out the width value. I tried

width = text.match(/width=\"[^\"]/g);

but that just returns an array with one value = 5. Could someone give me a nudge in the right direction?

Thanks

Ry- · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-24 02:38:39Z

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Looks like you want:

var m = text.match(/width="([^"]+)/);
var width = m && m[1];

Note the + — a character class will only match one character by default.

answered Sep 24, 2013 at 2:38

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zerkms · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-24 02:39:26Z

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/width=\"[^\"]+/g
              ^--- + means 1 or more

Without quantifier it matches exactly one character.

answered Sep 24, 2013 at 2:38

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@minitech: it's not a ready to use code, but an extraction :-)