How would I take some key values from a string thats formatted like this and save each value into a variable?
[Alert] <value here> has thrown a <value here> in <value here>.
I’m really not sure how to go about this… Maybe regex? I’m not very familiar with regex.
>Solution :
The regex is pretty simple and can be almost identical to your string. Where you want to pick out some words use the match syntax (.+) – the period is "any character", and the + is "one or more".
Use match on the string with the expression to return an array of matches which you can then destructure into a number of variables (I’ve called them a b and c here).
// Note: you have to escape the `[` and `]` around "Alert"
// as they are part of regex syntax. `^` and `$`
// signify the start and end of the string respectively
const re = /^\[Alert\] (.+) has thrown a (.+) in (.+)\.$/;
const str = '[Alert] Trump has thrown a tantrum in his Evil Lair.'
const [full, a, b, c] = str.match(re);
console.log(a, b, c);