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JavaScript Regular Exp

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern.

The search pattern can be used for text search and text replace operations.

What Is a Regular Expression?

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern.

When you search for data in a text, you can use this search pattern to
describe what you are searching for.

A regular expression can be a single character, or a more complicated pattern.

Regular expressions can be used to perform all types of text search and text
replace operations.

Syntax

/pattern/modifiers;

Example

/w3schools/i;

Example explained:

/w3schools/i is a regular expression.


w3schools is a pattern (to be used in a search).

i is a modifier (modifies the search to be case-insensitive).

Using String Methods

In JavaScript, regular expressions are often used with the two string methods:
search() and replace().

The search() method uses an expression to search for a match, and returns
the position of the match.

The replace() method returns a modified string where the pattern is replaced.

Using String search() With a String

The search() method searches a string for a specified value and returns the
position of the match:

Example

Use a string to do a search for "W3schools" in a string:

let text = "Visit W3Schools!";

let n = text.search("W3Schools");

The result in n will be:

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