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Re: Help creating 'simple' regex

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JJ wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:56:20 -0700, Joey@still_Learning.invalid wrote:
>> I know next to nothing about regex, but I need to determine whether an
>> exact match of a string within a string exists. My current code, which
>> doesn't work is:
>> 
>> firstString = 'testing';
>> testString = 'This is useful for testing cookies';
>> 
>> testTheStrings = testString.search(/\bfirstString\b/);
>> 	
>> if (testTheStrings !=-1) {alert("Names are OK")}
>> else {alert("Names not the same");}
>> 
>> Keeps coming up with testTheStrings = -1.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
>What you did there is to search for "firstString" instead of "testing". So
>the regex should be:
>
>/\btesting\b/
>
>i.e.: the text itself. not the variable name of the text you want to search.
>
>So te code should be like this:
>
>testTheStrings = testString.search(/\btesting\b/);
>
>If you want to use a variable to pass to the search function...
>
>firstString = /\btesting\b/;
>testString = 'This is useful for testing cookies';
>testTheStrings = testString.search(firstString);
>
>For case-insensitive regex, use the "i" option:
>
>firstString = /\btesting\b/i;

Thanks very much, JJ. 
-- 
Joey

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