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Sultan Zhumatayev
Sultan Zhumatayev

Reputation: 555

regex match coordinates

From string liike this "42.901189372459974,71.36591345071793"; i try to get numbers 42.901189 71.365913

            var crds ="42.901189372459974,71.36591345071793";
            var expr = new RegExp("[0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]","gim");
            var matchedstr = crds.match(expr);

and in result i recevied 3 numbers 42.901189 ,372459,71.36591 but for me i need only 2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 606

Answers (1)

Yury Tarabanko
Yury Tarabanko

Reputation: 45121

You need to escape \ when using RegExp constructor

var expr = new RegExp("[0-9][0-9]\\.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]","gim");

But there is no need to use it in this case.

var expr = /\d{2}\.\d{6}/gim; // the same as above

Upvotes: 1

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