I have a string in javascript like
"some text @[14cd3:+Seldum Kype] things are going good for @[7f8ef3:+Kerry Williams] so its ok"
From this i want to extract the name and id for the 2 people. so data like -
[ { id: 14cd3, name : Seldum Kype},
{ id: 7f8ef3, name : Kerry Williams} ]
how can u use regex to extract this?
please help
var text = "some text @[14cd3:+Seldum Kype] things are going " +
"good for @[7f8ef3:+Kerry Williams] so its ok"
var data = text.match(/@\[.+?\]/g).map(function(m) {
var match = m.substring(2, m.length - 1).split(':+');
return {id: match[0], name: match[1]};
})
// => [ { id: '14cd3', name: 'Seldum Kype' },
// { id: '7f8ef3', name: 'Kerry Williams' } ]
// For demo
document.getElementById('output').innerText = JSON.stringify(data);<pre id="output"></pre>
Get the id from Group index 1 and name from group index 2.
@\[([a-z\d]+):\+([^\[\]]+)\]
Explanation:
@ Matches a literal @ symbol.\[ Matches a literal [ symbol.([a-z\d]+) Captures one or more chars lowercase alphabets or digits.:\+ Matches :+ literally.([^\[\]]+) Captures any character but not of [ or ] one or more times.\] A literal ] symbol.
Try the following, the key is to properly escape reserved special symbols:
@\[([\d\w]+):\+([\s\w]+)\]
