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1 RegExp topic (ask questions) Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:57 pm

george

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Do you use regular expressions and if so what do you use them for? It's been a while since I messed with any sort of javascript since I am learning PHP but I have learned in the past about regexp and I remember it being a tad confusing.

Code:: re = new RegExp("\d[0-9]1+");

If i'm not mistaken the regexp would now look for any digits with numbers 0-9 and it must contain 1 number. Of course since nothing is defined it won't do anything but this is generally how it works correct? scratch

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There are multiple ways to test this.

Here is the best example to me.

Code:: //number variable var numbers = "abc1234";

Code:: numbers.match(/[0-9]{1}/);

This will return an array of the instances. Only return one since in curly we have 1 meaning at least one instance, we can change this as {1,} meaning 1 or more of. or {2,5} between 2 and 5 times matched.

return example : ["1"]

Code:: (/[0-9]{2,3}/).exec(numbers);

Same as above just different in order of appearance. And this will return

["123"]

Code:: (/[0-9]{1}/).test(numbers);

Now this is my best option in my opinion for regex. Its testing the clause and returns true or false the above returns true. Theres a lot of regex, and what's more difficult is that every language changes a bit of it. PHP is different than JS, and JS is different than C++. It's annoying lol

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Yes I find that with different languages they do things differently a lot and it does wind up being a confusing situation sometimes especially when you are working a lot in more than one language it gets confusing.

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