Extracting a Substring from a String

1.5.extracting_a_substring_from_a_string.js

// use the indexOf String method to locate start and end of substring to extract
// then extract the string with the substring String method

var sentence = "This is one sentence. Here comes the bit to copy: start .. end.";
var start = sentence.indexOf(":");
var end = sentence.indexOf(".", start+1); // start searching at position start+1 to avoid first dot

var list = sentence.substring(start+1, end);