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TypeScript - find text in string
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In TypeScript it is possible to find text in string with String search method.
String search method works in following way:
- as first argument takes regular expression
- returns first text occurrance position,
- returns
-1value if nothing found
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const text: string = 'This is my text...';2
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const position1: number = text.search('is'); // be careful because of regex characters4
const position2: number = text.search('\\bis\\b');5
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console.log(position1); // 27
console.log(position2); // 5xxxxxxxxxx1
const text: string = 'This is my text...';2
const position: number = text.search(/\bis\b/);3
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console.log(position); // 5