I would like to extract some text between two points in a string, in Javascript

Say the string is

"start-extractThis-234"

The numbers at the end can be any number, but the hyphens are always present.

Ideally I think capturing between the two hypens should be ok.

I would like the result of the regex to be

extractThis

I would like to extract some text between two points in a string, in Javascript

Say the string is

"start-extractThis-234"

The numbers at the end can be any number, but the hyphens are always present.

Ideally I think capturing between the two hypens should be ok.

I would like the result of the regex to be

extractThis

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• Wow, I wonder how many of my old questions I'll be embarrised about like this one! – Chris Barry Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 10:23

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string = "start-extractThis-234"

console.log( string.match( '-(.*)-' )[1] );

//returns extractThis

why not just do

var toExtract = "start-extractThis-234";
var extracted = null;
var split = toExtract.split("-");
if(split.length === 3){
   extracted = split[1];
}

^.+?-(.+?)-\d+$