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Text Processing with JavaScript
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Text Processing with JavaScript

by Faraz K. Kelhini
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
5h 28m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Recipe 51Matching Non-ASCII Numerals with the Unicode Property Escape

Task

Let’s say you want to match a number in a language that has a different numeral system, such as Persian or Vietnamese. Remember Recipe 29, ​Repeating Part of a Regex with Quantifiers​, where you validated a PIN code with regex?

This time you want to allow users to use numerals in their own language to create a PIN. But, the problem is that the character class for matching digits (\d) matches only ASCII digits:

​ ​const​ re = ​/^​​\d{4,6}​​$/​;
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Even setting the Unicode flag won’t help:

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