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The text string. Pattern Return value (Array)
Remember that time that the trees fell down.
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
/Remember/ [“Remember”]
Remember that time that the trees fell down.
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
/Remember/g [“Remember“, “Remember“]
Remember that time that the trees fell down.
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
/wall/g [“wall“]
Remember that time that the trees fell down. /[wall]/g [“a”, ”a”, “l”, “l”, “w”, “w”, “a”...
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
etc]
Remember that time that the trees fell down. /[.]/g [“.”, “.”, “.”,
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
“.”]
Remember that time that the trees fell down. /A-Z/ Only capital letters. A to Z.
The wood crashing through the wall.
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
[“R”, “T”, “R”, “B”]
Remember that time that the trees fell down. /.*/ Match everything until end
The wood crashing through the wall.
of line. Notice that the match
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
automatically stops at the end
But nobody woke up at all.
of line, the invisible character.
Remember that time that the trees fell down. /.*/g When g is added, however,
The wood crashing through the wall.
the match does not stop at the
Remember the sound that could wake the dead.
But nobody woke up at all.
end of character mark.
If you understand these commands, you will be able to do some interesting things with strings.
However, these examples are far from definitive. There are thousands of different ways ot select
characters from a string using regular expressions.
If you believe regular expressions can help you with your web project, refer to Jan Goyvaerts
regular expression website at this URL: www.regular-expressions.info This is an excellent free
resource to further explore regular expressions.
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