Shouldn't this RegExp work?

Question

testString = \"something://something/task?type=Checkin\";

patt = new RegExp(\"something\\/(\\w*)\\?\");
match = patt.exec(testString);
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Answer 1

I think this would be enough: (\w*)\?, since / is not captured by \w and the only ? in the string is after your target string.

Answer 2

You would need to escape the slash in regex literals, and the backslash in string literals which you create regexes from:

var patt = /something\/(\w*)\?/g;
// or
var patt = new RegExp("something/(\\w*)\\?", 'g');

I strongly recommend the first version, it is more readable.

Answer 3

This is what you need:

patt = new RegExp(".*/(\\w*)\\?");

http://jsfiddle.net/FJcfd/

Answer 4

try with this: var pat = /something:\/\/(?:[^\/]+\/)+(\w+)\?(\w+=\w+)/;

it can match string such as:

something://something/task?type=Checkin
something://something/foo/task?type=Checkin
something://something/foo/bar/task1?type3=Checkin4