I was taking a look at this response from @Sergio here on the stackoverlow:
There was a snippet of code like this:
/^(\d)+$/.test(111)
What exactly does do in this regular expression?
What is the value of \ 1 in the regular expression in javascript?
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asked by anonymous 22.10.2015 / 21:54
2 answers
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If you have one or more capture groups in the regex this will fetch the value captured in the first group. As that a variable that assumes the value of the group. If there is more than one you can use , etc.
For example:
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/^(\w)(\d)$/
accepts strings with two equal letters followed by two equal numbers two to two.
For example aa11 or bb33 ( example ).
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/^(\w)(\d)$/
looks like the above example but accepts merged patterns.
For example a1a1 or b3b3 ( example ).
22.10.2015 / 21:58
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It is the result of the first group that is represented by ( ) , so bar number ( ) get the value of it. Other languages use dollar sign, ex: $1 .
Regular expressions have daytime utilities, say you have a text file full of inserts where dates are in dd/mm/yyyy format with a suitable editor you can convert to yyyy-mm-dd with replace.
10/23/2015
Use ([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{4}) to caputrar the date and This will change the position of the year for the day, then it is only to change the separator from \ to - and date will be 2015-10-23. / p>
22.10.2015 / 21:57