How to get title tag in a string of html?

.match() returns array of matches, use

var title = result.match(/<title[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/title>/)[1];

to get value in parentheses

load your response html string into a jQuery object like so and retrieve the text

$(response).find("title").text();

CODE:

var title = result.match("<title>(.*?)</title>")[1];