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# Friday, September 04, 2009

In JavaScript, a regular expression is written in the form of /pattern/modifiers where "pattern" is the regular expression itself, and "modifiers" are a series of characters indicating various options. The "modifiers" part is optional.

    * /g enables "global" matching. When using the replace() method, specify this modifier to replace all matches, rather than only the first one.
    * /i makes the regex match case insensitive.
    * /m enables "multi-line mode". In this mode, the caret and dollar match before and after newlines in the subject string.

You can combine multiple modifiers by stringing them together as in /regex/gim.

Since forward slashes delimit the regular expression, any forward slashes that appear in the regex need to be escaped. For example, the regex 1/2 is written as /1\/2/ in JavaScript.

As with anything, you can find much more information about JavaScript on the web if you Google or Bing it. 

Friday, September 04, 2009 2:30:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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