RegEx to match stuff between parentheses

Question

I m having a tough time getting this to work  I have a string like   something   0-9     a-z     And I need regex or a method of getting each match between the parentheses and return an array of matches like        0-9      a-z      The regex I m using is            which does seem to match the right thing if there is only one set of parenthesis   How can I get an array like above using any RegExp method in JavaScript  I need to return just that array because the returned items in the array will be looped through to create a URL routing scheme

User · Accepted Answer

You need to make your regex pattern  non-greedy  by adding a     after the       By default      and     are greedy in that they will match as long a string of chars as possible  ignoring any matches that might occur within the string   Non-greedy makes the pattern only match the shortest possible match   See Watch Out for The Greediness  for a better explanation   Or alternately  change your regex to                  which will match any grouping of parens that do not  themselves  contain parens

User · Answer

var getMatchingGroups   function s      var r            g  a     m    while  m   r exec s         a push m 1          return a      getMatchingGroups  something   0-9     a-z           gt     0-9      a-z

User · Answer

If s is your string   s replace                    trim everything before first parenthesis   replace                    trim everything after last parenthesis   split                       split between parenthesis

User · Answer

Use this expression                 g   e g   function         var mts    something   0-9     a-z    match               g        alert mts 0        alert mts 1

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