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?

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.

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

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 …

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

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.

var str = 'asd-0.testing'; var regex = /asd-(\d)\.\w+/; str.replace(regex, 1); That replaces the entire string str with 1. I want it to replace the matched substring instead of the whole string. Is this possible in …