JavaScript regular Expression从主字符串中提取双qoutes的子字符串

Question

i have a string , which look like an array of strings. I need a regex pattern in javascript to extract the substrings inside that master string, and return me the substring. Look at the string given below, and i need a regex on the basis of this string. And the regex will extract the substrings like : files/file/img1.jpg ,files/file/img2.jpg and so on, until the end. As much directories i have , i want them to be extracted. For time being just consider that its not an array, its just a string. Thank you

 str = "["files/file/img1.jpg","files/file/img2.jpg","files/file/img3.jpg","files/file/img4.jpg","files/file/img5.jpg","files/file/img6.jpg"] "; 

Answer 1

Use JSON.parse to parse your string.Then just iterate over the array.

 var str = '["files/file/img1.jpg","files/file/img2.jpg","files/file/img3.jpg","files/file/img4.jpg","files/file/img5.jpg","files/file/img6.jpg"]'; var result = JSON.parse(str); for(var i= 0; i< result.length;i++){ console.log(result[i]); } 

Answer 2

The syntax is kinda wrong. It should be:

var str ="[\"files/file/img1.jpg\",\"files/file/img2.jpg\",\"files/file/img3.jpg\",\"files/file/img4.jpg\",\"files/file/img5.jpg\",\"files/file/img6.jpg\"] ";

Apart from that we can just use multiple Javascript string manipulation functions to extract the string:

data = str.split('["')[1].split('"]')[0].replace(/"/g, "").split(',');

Now the variable data is an array which has all the directories you need. The output looks something like this:

 (6) ["files/file/img1.jpg", "files/file/img2.jpg", "files/file/img3.jpg", "files/file/img4.jpg", "files/file/img5.jpg", "files/file/img6.jpg"]

You can get each directory by indexing it: data[0] is the first one.