Also how do you specify a match on "ABC.+{1}" (ie. string starting with ABC and ending with ) If the string being searched is "some text ABC123more text" it works fine but if its "some text ABC123more text"
I get the more which I don't want
PaulW
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:00:00 GMT
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Regular Expressions Newbie Question
whatUWant="some text ABC123more text".match(/ABC.+/)
Quote:
>Any one any ideas why
>var SearchPattern = new RegExp("ID19[0-9]+");
>will match "ID1923" in a string
>but
>var SearchPattern = new RegExp("ID19\d+");
>won't
>I though \d was same as [0-9]
>Also how do you specify a match on "ABC.+{1}" >(ie. string starting with ABC and ending with ) >If the string being searched is "some text ABC123more text" it works fine >but if its >"some text ABC123more text"
Regular Expressions Newbie Question