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Josh
Josh

Reputation: 71

JS: Regex and global match() not creating an array

I'm trying ti use match() in order to parse through some text and return the amount of times the text shows up. I'm doing this by using a global match and then calling length on the array that is created from the match. Instead, I'm just getting a array with a single element.

$('button').click(function () {
    checkword = "/" + specialWord + "/g";
    finalAnswer = userText.match(specialWord);
    console.log(finalAnswer);
    $('#answer').html(finalAnswer + '<br>' + finalAnswer.length);
    return finalAnswer;
});

For example my search for 'is' in "this is" should return an array with a length of two, correct?

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (1)

hwnd
hwnd

Reputation: 70732

Use a RegExp constructor to do this and you need to change .match(specialWord) to checkword instead.

checkword = new RegExp(specialWord, "g");
finalAnswer = userText.match(checkword);

Upvotes: 2

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