I want to use JavaScript (I can also use jQuery) to do check whether a string matches the regex ^([a-z0-9]{5,})$, and get a true or false result. match() seems to check whether part of a string matches a …

Match indicates the result of running your RegEx pattern against your string like so: someString.match(regexPattern). Matched patterns indicate all matched portions of the input string, …

If you're using JavaScript, which doesn't have a "dotall" option, try [\s\S]*. This means "match any number of characters that are either whitespace or non-whitespace" - effectively "match any string". …

Is there a way to retrieve the (starting) character positions inside a string of the results of a regex match() in Javascript?

101 Using String 's match() function won't return captured groups if the global modifier is set, as you found out. In this case, you would want to use a RegExp object and call its exec() function. String 's …

17 If you do not use any placeholders (as the "exactly" seems to imply), how about string comparison instead? If you do use placeholders, ^ and $ match the beginning and the end of a string, respectively.

May 8, 2015 · String.prototype.match will run a regex against the string and find all matching hits. In this case we use alternation to allow the regex to match either word1 or word2.

245 Although the match function doesn't accept string literals as regex patterns, you can use the constructor of the RegExp object and pass that to the String.match function:

Many times I'm using the string match function to know if a string matches a regular expression.

Here is the case: I want to find the elements which match the regex... targetText = "SomeT1extSomeT2extSomeT3extSomeT4extSomeT5extSomeT6ext" and I use the regex in ...