Extracting numbers from a string using regular expressions

Question

I am clueless about regular expressions, but I know that they\'re the right tool for what I\'m trying to do here: I\'m trying to extract a numerical value from a string like thi

Answer 1

mystr.match(/assignment_group=([^\^]+)/)[1]; //=> "12345678901234567890123456789012"

This will find everything from the end of "assignment_group=" up to the next caret ^ symbol.