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