jquery: how to get the text before and after a " - " with regex

Question

I have a label, which contains text. I need to get the two text elements which are separated by " - ". How can I do this with regular expressions in jQuery?

Answer 1

I would advise to use split rather than a regular expression. You can get both elements by using string.split(" - ");. This will return a string array with the elements split at the " - ".

Answer 2

Why do you need regex?

var title = "Hello - World!";
var parts = title.split(' - ');
alert(parts[0] + '\n' + parts[1]);

Unless I'm missing something, regex is not necessary and just induces unnecessary overhead.