I need help trying to write a javascript regular expression

Question

I need help trying to write a JavaScript regular expression to select Harry and Anderson from this text:

H6 Harry - Anderson

So I want the word after the hyphen and word before the hyphen.

Answer 1

Well, if there's always a hyphen present, you can use:

/(\w+) - (\w+)/

(PCRE syntax)

In JavaScript you can use the object method to catch the text in question:

string.match(/(\w+) - (\w+)/);

You can use the /g modifier to scan the whole chunk of text, it keeps backreferences in $1 up to $99.