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

I was able to get what I needed using Martinho Fernandes' solution below. The code is:

var test = "My cow always gives milk";

var testRE = test.match("cow(.*)milk");
alert(testRE[1]);

You'll notice that I am alerting the testRE variable as an array. This is because testRE is returning as an array, for some reason. The output from:

My cow always gives milk

Changes into:

always gives