Creating Regular Expressions
Let's say we have the following string:
How many boards would the Mongols hoard, if the Mongol hordes were bored?[1]
[1] Bonus points if
you know where this quote is from: email me at advjs@wire-man.com.
And let's say we have the following regular expression:
var myRegExp = /mongol/
How do we know we've created a regular expression? The clue is the forward slashes before and after the pattern, right where you'd expect quotes to be.
So we have the pattern “mongol.” Does this pattern match anything in the string? Actually, no. Regular expressions are case-sensitive, and while “Mongol” occurs twice in the text, “mongol” ...
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