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

• You need capture the .*
• You can (but don't have to) make the .* nongreedy

• There's really no need for the lookahead.

  > /cow(.*?)milk/i.exec('My cow always gives milk');
  ["cow always gives milk", " always gives "]