Repetition
The regular expression namePattern isn’t much of a pattern at all; it’s no different than using Find. What if I want to match Steven or Steve? Listing 6.4 shows how inflexible namePattern is.
Listing 6.4 Trying to Match Steve
> var myNickname = 'Steve Foote'; "Steve Foote"> namePattern.test(myNickname); false
Dang. My regular expression isn’t flexible enough for even my nickname. We can fix that—but be warned, this is where regular expressions start to look weird.
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