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JavaScript - String match() method example
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const expression = /\s/g; // match whitespaces2
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const text = 'Example text.';4
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if (text.match(expression)) {6
console.log('The string contains space(s).');7
}| Syntax | String match(regexp) |
| Parameters | regexp - a regular expression object |
| Result |
The method returns an array containing the results of that search, or |
| Description | The match() method retrieves the result of matching a string against a regular expression. |
In this example, we use the match() method to return an array of digits from the text string.
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const expression = /[0-9]/g; // match digits (0...9)2
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const text = 'Example number: 1234';4
const digits = text.match(expression);5
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console.log(digits);Output:
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[ '1', '2', '3', '4' ]