non-capture group still showing in match

Question

I know this topic has been thoroughly covered on StackOverflow, but I can\'t for the life of me get my regular expression to work. So without further repetitive ado ...

Answer 1

The entire match will always be group 0, you need to access that specific group (group 1 in this case since the first group is non-capture), you can do it like this:

var str = "
";
var regex = /(?:model=')(.*)(?:')/g
var match = regex.exec(str);
alert(match[1]); // cat

Fiddle

Also, I suppose you are probably wanting several matches within str, you could do that like this:

var str = "
";
var regex = /(?:model=')([^']*)/g
var matches = [];
var match;
while (match = regex.exec(str)) {
  matches.push(match[1]);
}
alert(matches); // cat,dog,horse

Fiddle