| Properties |
| length |
- integer, number of matches after last exec or match methods calls. |
| input |
- string, last inspected string. |
| source |
- string, source code of the regular expression - string this RegExp was build from. |
| index |
- integer, character position where the first successful match begins in a searched string, read-only. |
| lastIndex |
- integer, character position where the next match begins in a searched string. |
| [index] |
- string | undefined, read-only, returns n-th matched fragment. Index is a zero based index, integer. |
| Methods |
| RegExp |
(regular-expresion [,flags])
Used for intitalization of new instance of RegExp object. regular-expresion is a string - source of the regular expression. flags is an optional string and if provided may contain characters 'i' for case insensitive search and/or 'g' - for global search - to find all occurences of source in the input string.
Use this constructor as: var re = new RegExp(...); |
| test |
(input) → true | false
Checks input string to see if a pattern exists within a string and returns true if so, and false otherwise. |
| exec |
(input) → null | RegExp object
Returns this RegExp object with length and list of matches set if pattern exists in input string or null otherwise. |
