Regex to extract substring, returning 2 results for some reason

Question

I need to do a lot of regex things in javascript but am having some issues with the syntax and I can\'t seem to find a definitive resource on this.. for some reason when I d

Answer 1

match returns an array.

The default string representation of an array in JavaScript is the elements of the array separated by commas. In this case the desired result is in the second element of the array:

var tesst = "afskfsd33j"
var test = tesst.match(/a(.*)j/);
alert (test[1]);