- Simple matches.
- Literal characters (a character of
A in a regex, matches the same A character in a string).
/car/ matches “car”./car/ also matches the first 3 letters of “carnival”.- Searches are case-sensitive by default.
- Can go to flags and set
case insensitive to match
- Spaces are characters as well, so
/car/ does not match “c a r”
- Standard (non-global) matching.
- The earliest (leftmost) match is always preferred.
- Reads the string from left to right. –>
/zz/ only matches the first set of zz in “pizzazz”.
- Global Matching
- Finds all the matches throughout the text.
- All of the
zz in “pizzazz” would be matched.