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Alex Ryans
Alex Ryans

Reputation: 1935

JavaScript - strip everything before and including a character

I am relatively new to RegEx and am trying to achieve something which I think may be quite simple for someone more experienced than I.

I would like to construct a snippet in JavaScript which will take an input and strip anything before and including a specific character - in this case, an underscore.

Thus 0_test, 1_anotherTest, 2_someOtherTest would become test, anotherTest and someOtherTest, respectively.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 780

Answers (2)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626802

You can use the following regex (which can only be great if your special character is not known, see Alex's solution for just _):

^[^_]*_

Explanation:

  • ^ - Beginning of a string
  • [^_]* - Any number of characters other than _
  • _ - Underscore

And replace with empty string.

var re = /^[^_]*_/; 
var str = '1_anotherTest';
var subst = ''; 
document.getElementById("res").innerHTML = result = str.replace(re, subst);
<div id="res"/>

If you have to match before a digit, and you do not know which digit it can be, then the regex way is better (with the /^[^0-9]*[0-9]/ or /^\D*\d/ regex).

Upvotes: 1

Alex K.
Alex K.

Reputation: 175766

Simply read from its position to the end:

var str = "2_someOtherTest";
var res = str.substr(str.indexOf('_') + 1);

Upvotes: 0

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