JavaScript REGEXP Objects

JavaScript RegExp Object RegExp Object

The RegExp object represents a regular expression, which is a powerful tool for performing pattern matching on strings.

Direct volume syntax

/pattern/attributes

Syntax for creating REGEXP objects:

New RegExp (patternattributes);

Parameters

Parameter pattern is a string that specifies the pattern of a regular expression or other regular expression.

The parameter attributes is an optional string that contains the property "G", "I", and "M", respectively, for specifying global matching, case-sensitive matching, and multiline matching. The M attribute is not supported until ECMAScript is normalized. If pattern is a regular expression, not a string, you must omit the parameter.

return value

A new RegExp object that has the specified pattern and flags. If the parameter pattern is a regular expression instead of a string, the RegExp () constructor creates a new RegExp object with the same pattern and flags as the specified REGEXP.

Without the new operator, and REGEXP () as a function call, it behaves as if it were called with the new operator, except that when pattern is a regular expression, it only returns pattern, and no longer creates a new The RegExp object.

Thrown

SyntaxError-Throws the exception if pattern is not a valid regular expression, or if the attributes contains characters other than "G", "I", and "M".

TypeError-Throws the exception if pattern is a RegExp object but does not omit the attributes parameter.

Modifier

modifier	Description
I	Performs a match that is not case sensitive.
G	Performs a global match (finds all matches rather than stops after the first match is found).
M	Performs multi-line matching.

Square brackets

Square brackets are used to find characters in a range:

An expression	Description
[ABC]	Look for any characters between square brackets.
[^ABC]	Look for any characters that are not in square brackets.
[0-9]	Look for any number from 0 to 9.
[A-z]	Finds any characters from a to lowercase z from a small write.
[A-z]	Look for any characters from uppercase A to uppercase Z.
[A-z]	Look for any characters from uppercase A to lowercase z.
[ADGK]	Finds any character within a given collection.
[^ADGK]	Finds any character outside the given collection.
(Red|blue|green)	Finds any of the specified options.

Metacharacters

Metacharacters (metacharacter) is a character that has a special meaning:

Meta character	Description
.	Finds a single character, in addition to line breaks and line terminators.
\w	Find the word character.
\w	Finds non-word characters.
\d	Find numbers.
\d	Finds non-numeric characters.
\s	Find white space characters.
\s	Finds non-whitespace characters.
\b	Matches the word boundary.
\b	Matches a non-word boundary.
/	Find NUL characters.
\ n	Find line breaks.
\f	Find a page break.
\ r	Look for the carriage return character.
\ t	Find tabs.
\v	Find vertical tabs.
\xxx	Find the characters that are specified in octal number XXX.
\xdd	Finds the characters specified in hexadecimal number DD.
\uxxxx	Finds the Unicode characters specified in hexadecimal number xxxx.

Quantifiers

quantifier	Description
n+	Matches any string that contains at least one n.
N	Matches any string that contains 0 or more N.
N?	Matches any string that contains 0 or one n.
N{X}	Matches a string that contains a sequence of X N.
N{x,y}	Matches a string containing a sequence of X to Y N.
N{x,}	Matches a string that contains at least X N of a sequence.
n$	Matches any string that ends with N.
^n	Matches any string that begins with N.
!=0	Matches any string immediately followed by the specified string n.
?! N	Matches any string that does not follow the specified string n immediately thereafter.

RegExp Object Properties

Properties	Description	FF	IE
Global	RegExp whether the object has a flag g.	1	4
IgnoreCase	RegExp whether the object has a flag I.	1	4
LastIndex	An integer that indicates the character position at which to start the next match.	1	4
Multiline	RegExp whether the object has a flag m.	1	4
Source	The source text of the regular expression.	1	4

RegExp Object Methods

Method	Description	FF	IE
Compile	Compiles the regular expression.	1	4
Exec	Retrieves the value specified in the string. Returns the found value and determines its location.	1	4
Test	Retrieves the value specified in the string. Returns TRUE or FALSE.	1	4

Methods for String objects that support regular expressions

Method	Description	FF	IE
Search	Retrieves a value that matches a regular expression.	1	4
Match	Finds a match for one or more regular expressions.	1	4
Replace	Replace the substring that matches the regular expression.	1	4
Split	Splits a string into an array of strings.	1	4

Transferred from: http://www.w3school.com.cn/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

JavaScript REGEXP Objects