RegEx Question - remove everything between: and ~

Question

I find it hard to work with regex. This is a string.

"some text would be here and Blah St:39.74908:-104.99482:272~Turn right over here"

I need to remove

:39.74908:-104.99482:272~

part of the string. I am using jQuery if this helps.

Answer 1

var your_string = "some text would be here and Blah St:39.74908:-104.99482:272~Turn right over here";
alert(your_string.replace(/:.+~/, "")); /* some text would be here and Blah StTurn right over here */

Answer 2

var str = "some text would be here and Blah St:39.74908:-104.99482:272~Turn right over here";
alert(str.replace(/:[^~]+~/g, ""));

Answer 3

var string = 'some text would be here and Blah St:39.74908:-104.99482:272~Turn right over here'
var string2 = string.replace(/(?::-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?){3}~/g, '')

All instances will be replaced: number: number: number ~

Numbers can be negative and have decimal numbers

Answer 4

You do not need an extremely complex regular expression for this:

var str = 'Blah St:39.74908:-104.99482:272~Turn right over here';

str.replace(/:.*~/, '');