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23 lines
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// match: it takes a substring or regular expression pattern as an argument and it returns an array if there is match if not it returns null. Let us see how a regular expression pattern looks like. It starts with / sign and ends with / sign.
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let string = 'love'
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let patternOne = /love/ // with out any flag
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let patternTwo = /love/gi // g-means to search in the whole text, i - case insensitive
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string.match(substring)
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let string = 'I love JavaScript. If you do not love JavaScript what else can you love.'
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console.log(string.match('love')) //
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/*
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output
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["love", index: 2, input: "I love JavaScript. If you do not love JavaScript what else can you love.", groups: undefined]
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*/
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let pattern = /love/gi
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console.log(string.match(pattern)) // ["love", "love", "love"]
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// Let us extract numbers from text using regular expression. This is not regular expression section, no panic.
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let txt = 'In 2019, I run 30 Days of Pyhton. Now, in 2020 I super exited to start this challenge'
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let regEx = /\d+/ // d with escape character means d not a normal d instead acts a digit
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// + means one or more digit numbers,
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// if there is g after that it means global, search everywhere.
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console.log(text.match(regEx)) // ["2", "0", "1", "9", "3", "0", "2", "0", "2", "0"]
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console.log(text.match(/\d+/g)) // ["2019", "30", "2020"]
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