Regular Expressions Exec Method - Returning Array?
Sep 8, 2010
var toSearch = "I Wish This Worked. What Is The Issue?";
var pattern = /is/gi;
result = pattern.exec(toSearch);
alert(result.length); Shouldn't this be 4, not 1?
/*while((result = pattern.exec(toSearch)) != null)
alert(result[0] );*/
The commented out code works to access all instances of 'is'. But what's the point of returning an array if you're only going to use one index(0)? You'd have to manually code to get a full array of the returns, doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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Jul 23, 2005
Coding patterns for regular expressions is completely unintuitive, as far
as I can see. I have been trying to write script that produces an array
of attribute components within an HTML element.
Consider the example of the HTML element TABLE with the following
attributes producing sufficient complexity within the element:
<table id="machines" class="noborders inred"
style="margin:2em 4em;background-color:#ddd;">
Note that the HTML was created as a string in code, and thus there are NO
newlines ('
') in the string, as if a file was parsed...so newlines are
not an issue. The only whitespace is the space character ' ' itself,
required to delimit the element components.
I want to write an RE containing paranthesized substring matching that
neatly orders attribute components. The resulting array, after the
execution of the string .match() method upon the example, should look as
follows:
attrs = [ "id", "machines", "class", "noborders inred", "style",
"margin:2em 4em;background-color:#ddd;" ]
I can then march down the array (in steps of 2) setting attributes
(name=value) to the element using standard DOM interface methods, right?
In approaching the writing of the RE, I have to take into account the
characters permitted to form the attribute name and the attribute value.
I assume a start to the RE pattern as:
<attribute name>=<attribute value>
I then try to find the right RE pattern for <attribute name>, keeping in
mind what the legal characters are for attribute names according to the
HTML standard ("recommendation"):
[A-Za-z0-9-]+
I believe this patterns conforms to the standard for attribute values:
[,;'":!%A-Za-z0-9s.-]+
That pattern tries to be more exclusive than inclusive, although I think
just about every character on the planet, including a newline, is
acceptable in an attribute value, at least the kind one might see in an
HTML document. Code:
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I am trying to construct a reg exp for a field which can accept username as
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know there is a similar post on here but it didn't really give me any actual help on this topic:It seems that I have the correct regular expressions in this however it doesn't want to follow my freaking instructions can you guys maybe show me where I'm going wrong and give me a short source code on how to rectify it. Code is below:
function validate(theForm)
{
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[code]....
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[Code]...
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var varifyThree = /^\d*[^\.]$/;
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[Code].....
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var item = creditExp.exec(creditNumber);
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return true;
}else
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return true;
}else
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Feb 3, 2010
Code JavaScript:
function regExpression(stringValue) {
if (stringValue === null || stringValue.length === 0) {
alert("No string was entered"); }
else if (stringValue.match(/^[_.-a-z0-9]+@[_.-a-z]+.[a-z]{2,4}$/i) != null)
alert("This is a valid email.");
else {
alert("The string is not a valid email."); }
}
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It will won't work in this browser, but now at least the script loads and other functions in the same file work.
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Explain to me why this doesn't work? code... All it does is crashes my browser.
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Code:
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