# How to extract word from String

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**Created:** [March 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-extract-word-from-string/642169 "2020-03-21T18:13:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sukhwinder_Saini)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-extract-word-from-string/642169/1 "2020-03-21T18:13:10Z")

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I have a RSS feed from the tags i want to extract location using JS from a sentence my approach is to extract the word surrounded by word 'to

Like i have a string: Rideshare is available from London to York. I want to extract London as pickup location and York as dropoff

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-extract-word-from-string/642169/2 "2020-03-21T19:48:28Z")

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Will the format always be **from X to Y**?

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**Author:** ![Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sukhwinder_Saini)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-extract-word-from-string/642169/3 "2020-03-21T20:00:32Z")

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Yes BRO!! I got the solution .match(/(\w+)\s+to\s+(\w+)/);

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**Author:** ![Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@Sukhwinder\_Saini](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sukhwinder_Saini)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-extract-word-from-string/642169/4 "2020-03-21T20:00:41Z")

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THanks though
