regular expression-javascript

Question

I want to get the string which comes between first : and first .

s:4332Hhj4j32hh432kjh.EF4324rf46543DSVC3443

I tried the following:

/:(.*?)\./g

But still it catches : and .

How can I exclude them?

Here is my example: http://www.regexr.com/3busf

Thanks

Answer 1

Use matches[1] instead of matches[0] :

 var re = /:(.*?)\\./g; var str = 's:4332Hhj4j32hh432kjh.EF4324rf46543DSVC3443'; var matches; while ((matches = re.exec(str)) !== null) { if (matches.index === re.lastIndex) { re.lastIndex++; } console.log(matches[0]); // ":4332Hhj4j32hh432kjh." console.log(matches[1]); // "4332Hhj4j32hh432kjh" }