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Javascript Regular Expressions
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Javascript Regular Expressions

by Loiane Groner, Gabriel Manricks
May 2015
Intermediate to advanced
112 pages
2h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Boundaries

In the following table, you can find the patterns for boundaries, which will tell the Regex what position to do the matching in.

Pattern

Description

Example

^

This matches the beginning of an input. If the multiline flag is set to true, it also matches immediately after the (\n) line break character.

/^ The/ matches "The" in "The stars", but not "In The stars".

$

This matches the end of an input. If the multiline flag is set to true, it also matches immediately before the (\n) line break character.

/and$/ matches "and" in "land", but not "and the bar".

\b

This matches any word boundary (test characters must exist at the beginning or at the end of a word within the string).

/va\b/ matches "va" in "this is a java ...

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