what is the best way to extract variables with '=' from a string in javascript

Question

I want to extract the variables names from a string like this: \"foo=valor bar=second\", and so on.

To return:

{ 
   foo: \"valor\", 
   ba         


        

Answer 1

Not necessarily the quickest answer (in terms of speed of submission), but less regular expressions to maintain and less variables to store.

function toJSON(str) {
  const regex = /(\w+)\=(\w+)\s*/g;
  let result = {};
  let match;

  while (match = regex.exec(str)) {
    result[match[1]] = match[2];
  }

  return result;
}

console.log(toJSON("foo=valor bar=second"));