omit delimiting characters from a result of a match regex

Question

I have this string and I Want to extract strings that are between ^ but without the ^ itself in javascript:

 const input = "^k^ 989 ^s^"

 var ptrn = /\^(.*?)\^/mg;
 var results = input.match(ptrn);
 console.log(results)  ==> ["^k^" , "^s^]

the following with exec has a different result but I prefer the match method than the loop of exec to get all matches

 let results = ptrn.exec(input);
 console.log(results) ==> ["^k^", "k"]

Answer 1

as another way, you can use split to achieve that.

const input = "^k^ 989 ^s^";
const results = input
  .split('^')
  .filter((_, index) => index % 2 === 1);
console.log(results);