Check whether a string matches a regex in JS

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I want to use JavaScript (can be with jQuery) to do some client-side validation to check whether a string matches the regex:

^([a-z0-9]{5,})$

Ideally it would be an expression that returned true or false.

I'm a JavaScript newbie, does match() do what I need? It seems to check whether part of a string matches a regex, not the whole thing.

match javascript regex
13 Answers

const regExpStr = "^([a-z0-9]{5,})$"
const result = new RegExp(regExpStr, 'g').test("Your string") // here I have used 'g' which means global search
console.log(result) // true if it matched, false if it doesn't

user_98008650

try

 /^[a-z\d]{5,}$/.test(str)


console.log( /^[a-z\d]{5,}$/.test("abc123") );

console.log( /^[a-z\d]{5,}$/.test("ab12") );

user_8600990

I would recommend using the execute method which returns null if no match exists otherwise it returns a helpful object.

let case1 = /^([a-z0-9]{5,})$/.exec("abc1");
console.log(case1); //null

let case2 = /^([a-z0-9]{5,})$/.exec("pass3434");
console.log(case2); // ['pass3434', 'pass3434', index:0, input:'pass3434', groups: undefined]
user_63928840

You can try this, it works for me.

 <input type="text"  onchange="CheckValidAmount(this.value)" name="amount" required>

 <script type="text/javascript">
    function CheckValidAmount(amount) {          
       var a = /^(?:\d{1,3}(?:,\d{3})*|\d+)(?:\.\d+)?$/;
       if(amount.match(a)){
           alert("matches");
       }else{
        alert("does not match"); 
       }
    }
</script>
user_102696940

please try this flower:

/^[a-z0-9\_\.\-]{2,20}\@[a-z0-9\_\-]{2,20}\.[a-z]{2,9}$/.test('abc@abc.abc');

true

user_86101460

If you don't want ^ and $ around the regex (I had such a usecase) you can do something like

let reg = /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/g
let txt = "hello"
let matches = reg.exec(txt)[0] == txt
console.log(`It ${matches ? "does" : "doesn't"} match`)
user_46173340

Update/Add

If the query string does not present in the URL then the below solution will work to add the param in the URL, if it already exists then it will update.

function updateUrlParameter(url, param, value) {
  var regex = new RegExp("(?<=[?|&])(" + param + "=)[^&]+", "i");
  if (regex.test(url)) {
    return url.replace(regex, param + "=" + value);
  } else {
    if (window.location.search) {
      return `${url}&${param}=${value}`;
    }else{
      return `${url}?${param}=${value}`;
    }
  }
}
user_34432470
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