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Mohan Krishnan
Mohan Krishnan

Reputation: 353

Javascript equivalent of Java's matcher.matches

Is there any function in Javascript that replicates Java's matcher.matches()?

Ok, let me narrow it down.

JAVA: The matches function in java tries to match the input regex against an entire string, say the regex is "^http" and the string is "http://www.xxx.zzz", the output is false where as ^http.* returns true.

JAVASCRIPT: In js, the function i tried was ".test()" which returned true even when the regex is "^http" for the same input string.

I use java in server side and js in client side, and I want to express the same behaviour on both. Is there any other method in js that replicates the matches function in java

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1015

Answers (1)

Bergi
Bergi

Reputation: 664936

The matches function in java tries to match the input regex against an entire string

There is no such function in JavaScript. You'll need to manually anchor your regex to the begin and end of the string.

/^http$/.test("http://www.xxx.zzz") // false

Upvotes: 3

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