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Dibish
Dibish

Reputation: 9303

Regular expression to find a word at the end of the string

I have string, based on the end character of that string I need to check a condition. I have managed to write following script, but its not taking as I intended. 

//var receivers_type = "d2845a48f91b29f9d0a6e96858f05d85xing";
var receivers_type = "d21fca8635940e97d0f8e132d806cedaxingpage";
if (/.*xing/.test(receivers_type)) {
    console.log('xing profile');
    flag = 1;
}
if (/.*xingpage/.test(receivers_type)) {
    console.log('xing page');
    flag = 0;
}

when receivers_type = "d2845a48f91b29f9d0a6e96858f05d85xing" condition is working properly. it will only enter into first if loop. But when the receivers_type = "d21fca8635940e97d0f8e132d806cedaxingpage" it is entering in to both if cases. Could you help me to solve this issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (4)

RodrigoDela
RodrigoDela

Reputation: 1736

I recommend to use following expression:

/xingpage$/

So you would have:

if (/xingpage$/.test(receivers_type)) {
    console.log('xing page');
    flag = 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

James Hibbard
James Hibbard

Reputation: 17795

You need to match the end of the string in your regex.

You can do this using the "end of string anchor", which is a dollar character.

var receivers_type = "d21fca8635940e97d0f8e132d806cedaxingpage";
if (/.*xing$/.test(receivers_type)) {
  console.log('xing profile');
}
if (/.*xingpage$/.test(receivers_type)) {
  console.log('xing page');
}

You can read more here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html

Upvotes: 1

TheGr8_Nik
TheGr8_Nik

Reputation: 3200

You don't need the .* selector, so you should use the folowing regexp

/xing$/  <-- the character $ means that the xing must be at the end of the string

So your code will be:

//var receivers_type = "d2845a48f91b29f9d0a6e96858f05d85xing";
var receivers_type = "d21fca8635940e97d0f8e132d806cedaxingpage";
if (/xing$/.test(receivers_type)) {
    console.log('xing profile');
    flag = 1;
}
if (/xingpage$/.test(receivers_type)) {
    console.log('xing page');
    flag = 0;
}

Upvotes: 3

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 136

Use match in Javascript and change the regex:

if(recievers_type.match(/(xingpage)$/)

Upvotes: 0

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