How to get substring between two strings in DART?

How can i achieve similar solution to: [How to get a substring between two strings in PHP?][1] but in DART

For example I have a String:<br>
`String data = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"`<br>
I have two other Strings: `quick` and `over`<br>
I want the `data` inside these two Strings and expecting result:<br>
` brown fox jumps `
<br>

[1]:

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You can do that with the help of regex.
Create a function that will return the regex matches as

Iterable<String> _allStringMatches(String text, RegExp regExp) =>
regExp.allMatches(text).map((m) => m.group(0));

And then define your regex as `RegExp(r"[quick ]{1}.*[ over]{1}"))`

I love regexp with lookbehind `(?<...)` and lookahead `(?=...)`:

void main() {
var re = RegExp(r'(?<=quick)(.*)(?=over)');
String data = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
var match = re.firstMatch(data);
if (match != null) print(match.group(0));
}

You can use `String.indexOf` combined with `String.substring`:


```dart
void main() {
const str = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
const start = "quick";
const end = "over";

final startIndex = str.indexOf(start);
final endIndex = str.indexOf(end, startIndex + start.length);

print(str.substring(startIndex + start.length, endIndex)); // brown fox jumps
}
```

Note also that the `startIndex` is *inclusive*, while the `endIndex` is *exclusive*.

final str = 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog';
final start = 'quick';
final end = 'over';

final startIndex = str.indexOf(start);
final endIndex = str.indexOf(end);
final result = str.substring(startIndex + start.length, endIndex).trim();

The substring functionality isn't that great, and will throw errors for strings above the "end" value.

To make it simpler user this custom function that doesn't thrown an error, instead using the max length.

String substring(String original, {required int start, int? end}) {
if (end == null) {
return original.substring(start);
}
if (original.length < end) {
return original.substring(start, original.length);
}
return original.substring(start, end);
}

For future researchers:
To start form the beginning of a string to a specific symbol or character;

Using substring and indexOf which is faster than regExp do this:

void main() {
const str = "Cars/Horses";

final endIndex = str.indexOf("/", 0);

print(str.substring(0, endIndex)); // Cars
}

**This might just help someone**