How to find a number in a string using JavaScript?

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Use a regular expression.

var r = /\d+/;
var s = "you can enter maximum 500 choices";
alert (s.match(r));

The expression \d+ means “one or more digits”. Regular expressions by default are greedy meaning they’ll grab as much as they can. Also, this:

var r = /\d+/;

is equivalent to:

var r = new RegExp("\d+");

See the details for the RegExp object.

The above will grab the first group of digits. You can loop through and find all matches too:

var r = /\d+/g;
var s = "you can enter 333 maximum 500 choices";
var m;
while ((m = r.exec(s)) != null) {
  alert(m[0]);
}

The g (global) flag is key for this loop to work.

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