extract value from String using regex:

[tkrishna29]

Hi,

I have the following text in one of our fields - 

var str = 'Running: Yes
Link status: Connected to cloud.xxx.com:
UUID: a49167c7-xxx-yyy-zzz-01234567zx00';

I need to extract the UUID value from this text and update it to one of our UUID fields. How can I extract this UUID tag value? Greatly appreciate your help. Thank you.

[Jaspal Singh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try below in background script once.

var str = 'Running: Yes Link status: Connected to cloud.xxx.com: UUID: a49167c7-xxx-yyy-zzz-01234567zx00';
var splittogettext=str.split('UUID:')[1];//This gives text after UUID
gs.print(splittogettext);

[Dan H]

Hi Jaspal,

I think it should be:

var str = 'Running: Yes Link status: Connected to cloud.xxx.com: UUID: a49167c7-xxx-yyy-zzz-01234567zx00';
var splittogettext=str.split('UUID: ')[1];//This gives text after UUID
gs.print(splittogettext);

Otherwise the splittogettext variable will have one whitespace at the start of the variable and this will probably cause issues if the value is being used elsewhere.

[Jaspal Singh]

Yes. Agreed.

[tkrishna29]

Thanks a lot. I thought I have to use regex.match() to get this value from the expression.