extract word using regular expression in javascript

Question

Here is my string

var str = 'varying<div class="desc_1"><div>Changing or xyz</div></div>';

And I want to extract "varying" and "Changing or xyz" word from sentence using regular expression in javascript. I want output like this

str1 = "varying";
str2 = "Changing or xyz";

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Answer 1

Do you need to use a regular expression here?

 var str = 'varying<div class="desc_1"><div>Changing or xyz</div></div>'; var tmp = document.createElement('div'); tmp.innerHTML = '<div>' + str + '</div>'; var text = []; var divs = tmp.getElementsByTagName('div'); for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++) { var textEle = divs[i].childNodes[0]; if (textEle.nodeValue !== null) { text.push(textEle.nodeValue); } } console.log(text); document.getElementById('output').innerHTML = text.join(', '); 

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