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JavaScript: match a regular expression

If String.match(…) is given a RegExp object, it returnes the matched substrings in an array.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  <title>String.match</title>

  <script type="text/javascript">
    
    var out;
    function main() {

      out = document.getElementById('out');
      var s = "foo 42 bar 19 baz 38 xyz";

      var m = s.match(/\d+/g);

      m.map(function(x) {
        out.innerHTML += x + "<br>";
        // 42
        // 19
        // 38
      });


    }

  </script>

</head>
<body onload='main()';>
  <div id="out"></div>

  Compare with <a href='../RegExp/exec.html'>RegExp.exec</a>.
</body>
</html>

Github repository about-javascript, path: /objects/String/match.html

JavaScript: match a regular expression

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