Grab the youtube Video ID with Jquery & .match()

Question

Just need a little push as I have this almost working.

I want to feed jquery a URL and have it strip everthing but the video url.

Here is my code:

Answer 1

First, remove the $ in front of results... I assume that was a typo. Next, replace

$results = url.match("[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)");

with

results = url.match("[\?&]v=([^&#]*)")[1];

match() will return an array if there is a successful match. You're currently getting the entire array. What you want is the second element of the array (match()[1]) which is what is inside your capturing parentheses.