Reg Expression - Fetch string between 2 characters

I am using AJAX to grab the contents of a webpage and I want to grab all instances of a sting pattern and put them into an array.

The data I am extracting is in Sharepoint. I want all values that are between "-->" and " ".

I already have the entire data chunk in a variable called "content".

Can anyone help with a regexp to achieve this?

Thanks

 

<script type="text/javascript">

function extractFromString(str, rxp, index)
{
 var set = [], result;

 while( result = rxp.exec( str ) )
  set.push( result[index] );

 return set;   
}


var data = "--> balls &nbsp; xxxx --- ==== --> are &nbsp; never shaped --> round !&nbsp;" ;

alert( extractFromString( data, /-->(.+?)&nbsp;/g, 1 ) );

</script>

Code (markup):

 

Try this,

var data = "--> balls   xxxx --- ==== --> are   never shaped --> round ! " ;
var myArray = data.split(/-->| /);

Tested here,   displays as a space.
http://www.pagecolumn.com/tool/regtest.htm