Grab a value from a string using Regex

Question

I have a link that I want to grab a specific character out of. This is the link in question

"https://example.com/example-myexample/from/MyHouse/to/48DFjjhf333333333/view"

I want to grab the following id 48DFjjhf333333333 from this link using a regular expression. In this link /to/ and /view never change. The only thing that ever changes is the id that you see 48DFjjhf333333333.

I've tried the following regular expression:

\/to(.*?)\/view

This grabs everything along with /to/ and /view as follows /to/48DFjjhf333333333/view. I want to grab just the ID itself 48DFjjhf333333333

You need to get the access to Group 1 value. What is your language? — Wiktor Stribiżew, Apr 22 '20 at 13:28
If your regex engine allow you may could use positive look behind like `(?<=\/to\/)[^/]+`. See: https://regex101.com/r/p0RkEe/1 — Eraklon, Apr 22 '20 at 13:30

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '20 at 13:32

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You just need to access the matching group with [1]

console.log("https://example.com/example-myexample/from/MyHouse/to/48DFjjhf333333333/view".match(/\/to\/(.*?)\/view/)[1])

answered Apr 22 '20 at 13:32

Murat Karagöz

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