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Reputation: 1886

JS analogue for Excel's regex

I've got an Excel document which uses regex. The expression is like this:

*<*>*

* is any array of symbols (including empty one). There are some matching strings examples:

abc<>abc
<abc>
<>

Can you help me with function in JS, which will return true, if the passed string is correct for this regex, otherwise it has to return false.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 66

Answers (2)

Morfie
Morfie

Reputation: 670

Maybe this?

var str = 'some<blah>thing';
patt=/.*<.*>.*/g;
result=patt.test(str);
document.write("<br>Returned value: " + result);

Test it here: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_regexp_test

Upvotes: 1

VisioN
VisioN

Reputation: 145458

Assuming that set of any number of characters can be represented as .*, then the right way is:

/^.*<.*>.*$/.test(str);

REF: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions

Upvotes: 1

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