I have a value "4.66lb"
and i want to separate "4.66" and "lb" using regex.
I tried the below code, but that separates only number "4,66"!! but i want both the values 4.66 and lb.
var text = "4.66lb";
var regex = /(\d+)/g;
alert(text.match(/(\d+)/g));
Have a try with:
var res = text.match(/(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(\D+)/);
res[1] contains 4.66
res[2] contains lb
In order to match also 4/5lb, you could use:
var res = text.match(/(\d+(?:[.\/]\d+)?)(\D+)/);
You could use a character class also,
> var res = text.match(/([0-9\.]+)(\w+)/);
undefined
> res[1]
'4.66'
> res[2]
'lb'
var str = ' 1 ab 2 bc 4 dd'; //sample string
str.split(/\s+\d+\s+/)
result_1 = ["", "ab", "bc", "dd"] //regex not enclosed in parenthesis () will split string on the basis of match expression
str.split(/(\s+\d+\s+)/) //regex enclosed in parenthesis () along with above results, it also finds all matching strings
result_2 = ["", " 1 ", "ab", " 2 ", "bc", " 4 ", "dd"]
//here we received two type of results: result_1 (split of string based on regex) and those matching the regex itself
//Yours case is the second one
//enclose the desired regex in parenthesis
solution : str.split(/(\d+\.*\d+[^\D])/)
([a-z]+)?