Regex – how to find multiple import statement matches

I’m trying to find all occurrences of a js import statement in a string of text

For example in this string:

import $ from "./components/jquery.js"; import dirtyFormUnload from "./components/dirtyFormUnload.js";

I’d like to match

import $ from "./components/jquery.js";

and

import dirtyFormUnload from "./components/dirtyFormUnload.js";

The regex I’ve put together is below, but it matches the entire string once, instead of each individual import statement

import\s+.*\s+from\s+['""].*\.js[^\s;]*[\s;]?

>Solution :

your regex statement is getting greedy, meaning that the first .* is matching as much as it can, including the next input statement. One way to fix this is to prevent it from matching ; characters like this:

import\s+[^;]*\s+from\s+['""][^;]*\.js[^\s;]*[\s;]?