Get the text between two custom tags from a string using regex

Question

I have a string that I want to get text from:

var text = "<p>This is awesome and</p> <p>some random</p> and <custom>complex boring text</custom> <p>I</p> <custom>really need to clean</custom> up my room. that feel"

I want to get the text from all the <custom /> tags in a array. I am trying to get this result:

['complex boring text', 'really need to clean']

How can I do this?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:31:55Z

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Firstly, never ever use RegEx to parse HTML. To achieve this you can create a jQuery object from the text and then filter() out the custom elements before creating an array of their text using map(). Try this:

var arr = $(text).filter('custom').map(function() {
    return $(this).text();
}).get();
console.log(arr);

Working example

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:31

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4 Comments

LeRoy Over a year ago

Thanks +1 for letting me know about regex to HTML

Wiktor Stribiżew Over a year ago

@Rory: Secondly: never answer "gimme-code" questions. Should “Give me a regex that does X” questions be closed?

Rory McCrossan Over a year ago

@WiktorStribiżew I'd rather help someone than simply close a question for asking about an incorrect solution.

Wiktor Stribiżew Over a year ago

As people say, fair enough.

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