Get everything after the dash in a string in javascript

Question

What would be the cleanest way of doing this that would work in both IE and firefox.

My string looks like this: sometext-20202

Now the \'sometext\' and the

Answer 1

AFAIK, both substring() and indexOf() are supported by both Mozilla and IE. However, note that substr() might not be supported on earlier versions of some browsers (esp. Netscape/Opera).

Your post indicates that you already know how to do it using substring() and indexOf(), so I'm not posting a code sample.