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

You can do it with built-in RegExp(pattern[, flags]) Factory Notation in js like this:

RegExp(/-(.*)/).exec("sometext-20202")[1]

in above code exec function will return an array with two elements (["-20202", "20202"]) one with hyphen(-20202) and one without hyphen(20202) , you should pick second element (index 1)