Regex from character until end of string

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Hey. First question here, probably extremely lame, but I totally suck in regular expressions :(

I want to extract the text from a series of strings that always have only alphabetic characters before and after a hyphen:

string = "some-text"

I need to generate separate strings that include the text before AND after the hyphen. So for the example above I would need string1 = "some" and string2 = "text"

I found this and it works for the text before the hyphen, now I only need the regex for the one after the hyphen.

Thanks.

Michael Low · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-17 21:04:59Z

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You don't need regex for that, you can just split it instead.

var myString = "some-text";
var splitWords =  myString.split("-");

splitWords[0] would then be "some", and splitWords[1] will be "text".

If you actually have to use regex for whatever reason though - the $ character marks the end of a string in regex, so -(.*)$ is a regex that will match everything after the first hyphen it finds till the end of the string. That could actually be simplified that to just -(.*) too, as the .* will match till the end of the string anyway.

edited Jan 17, 2014 at 21:04

answered Mar 14, 2011 at 0:26

Michael Low

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PeterX Over a year ago

I need to match from the last instance of a character - this is a solution: stackoverflow.com/a/8374980/845584

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