Applies a regular expression to a string and returns an array with the first match.
match()
uses regular expressions (regex) to match patterns in text. For example, the regex abc
can be used to search a string for the exact sequence of characters abc
. See MDN. for more information about regexes.
The first parameter, str
, is the string to search.
The second parameter, regex
, is a string with the regular expression to apply. For example, calling match('Hello, p5*js!', '[a-z][0-9]')
would return the array ['p5']
.
Note: If no matches are found, null
is returned.
Examples
Syntax
match(str, regexp)
Parameters
str
string to search.
regexp
regular expression to match.
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