Unusual regexp with javascript

Question

I'm looking for a regular expression to match a text starting with '• To start here' (bullet followed by a space and "To start here"). Does someone know how to do it ?

I keep searching and if I find the solution I'll post it.

edit (my attempt) :

var result = assertion.search(<li>(.To start here)</li>)

thanks,

Bruno

Did you try `• To start here.*`? Unicode characters are just characters ;-) Note that if you look inside some HTML you won't find that *if* the bullet is actually a character rendered by a `
Thanks for answering but it doesn't work. Could you please write it so I could check if I wrote it correctly ? — Bruno, Apr 20 '11 at 09:01
you should edit to show what you tried instead so others can correct any problems. — Andy E, Apr 20 '11 at 09:25

Lucas de Oliveira · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-20T10:09:29.963

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you're looking for the bullets in a unordered list in html, right? something like this:

<ul>
<li>To start Here</li>
<li>Another bullet</li>
</ul>

The regex for that would be:

<li>(.*?)</li>

The group '(.*?)' will catch the phrase you're looking for.

EDIT: Then what you must do to catch the phrases is:

   var regx = new RegExp('<li>(.*?)</li>');
   var result = regx.exec('<li>Hi there!</li>');
   alert (result[1]);

This will alert 'Hi there!' on the browser.

Whenever you're in doubt, try the awesome RegexPal.

cheers!

edited Apr 20 '11 at 10:09

answered Apr 20 '11 at 09:23

Lucas de Oliveira

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Thanks for your answer. So it would be something like : var result = assertion.search(
(.*?)

Bruno

Apr 20 '11 at 09:27

Just updated the javascript code, but I'm wondering what's the exact html you're putting your code to work against. can you show us that? – Lucas de Oliveira Apr 20 '11 at 10:10

oh, and if you're willing to itereate over the results check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432493/how-do-you-access-the-matched-groups-in-a-javascript-regex – Lucas de Oliveira Apr 20 '11 at 10:11

Unusual regexp with javascript

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