[Regex] Solving this regex

[slavidodo]

The text is

--margin:20px
--margin-top:20px
---margin:20px;
---margin-top:10px
--margin-:290px
--margin:1px
--margin:20px-f
--margin:-20px;;
--margin:20px-
--margin-bottom:10px--margin-top:20px

I need to select everything as --key:value whatever key is and whatever value is

[James_Hibbard]

Morning, your question doesn’t really make much sense. Is this an assignment or something? Could you elaborate on what you are trying to accomplish.

[Dormilich]

@slavidodo

I need to select everything as --key:value whatever key is and whatever value is

what have you tried?

it’s not that the RegExp is awfully complicated …

[slavidodo]

Hi!

hmm, i will pickup the first example to view it:

var string = "--margin:20px"
var regex = ???;

while ((cap = regex.exex(string)) {
     // cap should be { 0: "--margin:20px", 1: "margin", 2: "20px" }
}

[James_Hibbard]

Something like this?

var string = "--margin:20px"
var re = /\-\-(.*?):(\d+px)/;
console.log(string.match(re));

// ["--margin:20px", "margin", "20px", index: 0, input: "--margin:20px"]

[slavidodo]

@James_Hibbard

–margin:20px

Please re-read the main post, you completely misunderstood it.

[James_Hibbard]

@slavidodo

you completely misunderstood it.

lol, oh dear!

Could you then maybe rephrase the question and give a more extensive example of the output you are expecting.

[wesleyyps]

Almost made it an array…

var string = “–margin:20px\n”+
“–margin-top:20px\n”+
“—margin:20px;\n”+
“—margin-top:10px\n”+
“–margin-:290px\n”+
“–margin:1px\n”+
“–margin:20px-f\n”+
“–margin:-20px;;\n”+
“–margin:20px-\n”+
“–margin-bottom:10px–margin-top:20px”;
var regexp = /(?:(-\w+(?:-?\w):-?\d+\w+(?:[-\w;])))+/g;
string.match(regexp);