Extract image src from a string

You need to use a capture group () to extract the urls, and if you’re wanting to match globally g, i.e. more than once, when using capture groups, you need to use exec in a loop (match ignores capture groups when matching globally).

For example

var m,
    urls = [], 
    str="<img src="http://site.org/one.jpg />\n <img src="http://site.org/two.jpg />",
    rex = /<img[^>]+src="?([^"\s]+)"?\s*\/>/g;

while ( m = rex.exec( str ) ) {
    urls.push( m[1] );
}

console.log( urls ); 
// [ "http://site.org/one.jpg", "http://site.org/two.jpg" ]

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