regex for appscript, case insensitivy not working

Question

Below I am trying to use regex to get the occurrence of certain strings.

  var value = "ab-2123 AB-332";
  // "i" is for case insensitive
  var regExp = new RegExp("(ab)[-][0-9]*", "gi"); 
  var searchedString = regExp.exec(value);
  console.log(searchedString);

This only detects ab-2124 but not AB-33. Could some one please help me to figure out the mistake?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '19 at 14:19

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Use the match property instead of exec:

var value = "ab-2123 AB-332";
var re = new RegExp("(ab)[-][0-9]*", "gi");
var searchedString = value.match(re);
console.log(searchedString);

answered Nov 19 '19 at 14:19

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This was really helpful. Thanks a lot! Saved me a lot of time looking around! :) – kada Nov 28 '19 at 15:55

Shiny · Answer 2 · 2019-11-19T14:21:24.920

Firstly, a few important typos corrected

var searchedString regExp.exec(value) should be var searchedString = regExp.exec(value)

console.log(searched string); should be console.log(searchedString);

regExp.exec() will only return your first match. If you want multiple, you could use String.match(regExp)

let value = "ab-2123 AB-332";

  let regExp = new RegExp("(ab)[-][0-9]*", "gi"); // "i" is for case insensitive
  let searchedString = value.match(regExp);
  console.log(searchedString);

regex for appscript, case insensitivy not working

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