Help with regular expression

[Rob]

Hello all,

I have the folowing string
"url(http://www.somelocatio n/anaywhere/image.jpg)" stored in the variable
str_image
and I want to extract the string between the brackets.
I have

ar_match=str_im age.match("url([.]*)");

it returns
0=url
1=

How do I get this to work?

thanks in advance Rob

[Andrew Urquhart]

Re: Help with regular expression

Rob wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello all,
>
> I have the folowing string
> "url(http://www.somelocatio n/anaywhere/image.jpg)" stored in the
> variable str_image
> and I want to extract the string between the brackets.
> I have
>
> ar_match=str_im age.match("url([.]*)");
>[/color]

I'd do:

var strURI = str_image.repla ce(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "$1");
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[Rob]

Re: Help with regular expression


"Andrew Urquhart" <reply@website. in.sig> schreef in bericht
news:GhE1c.512$ sq2.484@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli .net...[color=blue]
> Rob wrote:[color=green]
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have the folowing string
> > "url(http://www.somelocatio n/anaywhere/image.jpg)" stored in the
> > variable str_image
> > and I want to extract the string between the brackets.
> > I have
> >
> > ar_match=str_im age.match("url([.]*)");
> >[/color]
>
> I'd do:
>
> var strURI = str_image.repla ce(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "$1");
> --
> Andrew Urquhart
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>
>[/color]


From now on I do the same ... ;-)

thanks Rob

[rh]

Re: Help with regular expression

"Rob" <reply_@news_gr oup.please> wrote in message news:<S1F1c.586 07$KL3.7841@ams news05.chello.c om>...[color=blue]
> "Andrew Urquhart" <reply@website. in.sig> schreef in bericht
> news:GhE1c.512$ sq2.484@newsfe2-gui.server.ntli .net...[color=green]
> > Rob wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have the folowing string
> > > "url(http://www.somelocatio n/anaywhere/image.jpg)" stored in the
> > > variable str_image
> > > and I want to extract the string between the brackets.
> > > I have
> > >
> > > ar_match=str_im age.match("url([.]*)");
> > >[/color]
> >
> > I'd do:
> >
> > var strURI = str_image.repla ce(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "$1");
> > --
> > Andrew Urquhart
> > - FAQ: http://jibbering.com/faq
> > - Archive: http://groups.google.com/groups?grou...ang.javascript
> > - Reply: www.andrewu.co.uk/about/contact/
> >
> >[/color]
>
>
> From now on I do the same ... ;-)
>
> thanks Rob[/color]

Note that the "$1" is extraneous in the replacement string, since
there are no capturing parentheses in the RegExp literal (not that any
are desired in this case).

The slight modification:

var strURI = str_image.repla ce(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "");

seems likely to be as Andrew intended to present.

[Andrew Urquhart]

Re: Help with regular expression

rh wrote:[color=blue]
> The slight modification:
>
> var strURI = str_image.repla ce(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "");
>
> seems likely to be as Andrew intended to present.[/color]

Oops, $1 is a force of habit, thanks rh :-)
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