Javascript Regex Match Capture is returning whole match, not group

Question

re = /\\s{1,}(male)\\.$/gi

\"A girl is a female, and a boy is a male.\".match(re);

this results in \" male.\"

what i want is \"male\"

Answer 1

You need to take out the 'g' option on your regexp:

re = /\s{1,}(male)\.$/i

yields

[" male.", "male"]