How to get text between two characters?

Question

|text to get| Other text.... migh have "|"'s ...

How can I get the text to get stuff from the string (and remove it)?

It should be just the first match

Answer 1

var test_str = "|text to get| Other text.... migh have \"|\"'s ...";
var start_pos = test_str.indexOf('|') + 1;
var end_pos = test_str.indexOf('|',start_pos);
var text_to_get = test_str.substring(start_pos,end_pos)
alert(text_to_get);