Regular expression to get a string between two strings in Javascript

Question

I have found very similar posts, but I can\'t quite get my regular expression right here.

I am trying to write a regular expression which returns a string which is b

Answer 1

Here's a regex which will grab what's between cow and milk (without leading/trailing space):

srctext = "My cow always gives milk.";
var re = /(.*cow\s+)(.*)(\s+milk.*)/;
var newtext = srctext.replace(re, "$2");

An example: http://jsfiddle.net/entropo/tkP74/