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Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods

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brettz9@gmail.com schrieb:

> I have Array-extra-like methods added to RegExp.prototype at
> https://gist.github.com/brettz9/6366721

I don't see much reason to do so. The method names imply that you are 
iterating over the regex object, but that's not what you're doing.

To me it would make much more sense to have a simple method like

RegExp.prototype.execAll = function execAll(str) {
     var res = [],
         regex = this.global ? this : new RegExp(this, "g"),
         matches;
     while (matches = regex.exec(str))
         res.push(matches);
     return res;
};
String.prototype.matchAll = function(reg) { return reg.execAll(this); };

that you can call on a regex and then use arbitrary (actual) Array 
methods on the result.

Greetings,
  Bergi

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Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods brettz9@gmail.com - 2013-08-28 07:51 -0700
  Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods Andreas Bergmaier <andber93@web.de> - 2013-08-28 17:16 +0200
    Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods brettz9@gmail.com - 2013-08-28 08:21 -0700
      Recommendation for array-like methods on Iterator; Was Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods brettz9@gmail.com - 2013-08-28 16:30 -0700
  Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-30 16:00 +0200
    Re: Recommendation for new RegExp (Array-extra-like) methods Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-09-01 15:25 +0200

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