Help with regular expression

[Rob]

Hello all,

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

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

it returns
0=url
1=

How do I get this to work?

thanks in advance Rob

[Andrew Urquhart]

Rob wrote:

Hello all,

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

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

I'd do:

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

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Rob wrote:

Hello all,

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

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

I'd do:

var strURI = str_image.replace(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "$1");
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From now on I do the same ... ;-)

thanks Rob

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Rob wrote:

Hello all,

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

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

I'd do:

var strURI = str_image.replace(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "$1");
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From now on I do the same ... ;-)

thanks Rob

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.replace(/^url\(|\)$/ig, "");

seems likely to be as Andrew intended to present.

[Andrew Urquhart]

rh wrote:

The slight modification:

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

seems likely to be as Andrew intended to present.

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