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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1668

javascript regex pattern with a variable string not working

I am trying to create a function that will pass some parameters to a regex script:

function classAttributes( classString, className ) {
    var data;
    var regex = new RegExp(className+"\[(.*?)\]");
    var matches = classString.match(regex);

    if ( matches ) {
        //matches[1] refers to options inside [] "required, email, ..."
            var spec = matches[1].split(/,\s*/);

            if ( spec.length > 0 ) {
                data = spec;
            }
    }

    return data;
}

but for some reason it doesnt like the string variable that I pass it "new RegExp(className+"[(.*?)]");" it doesnt throw an error but the validation doesnt work.

Edit: I will take the information from the class stribute and pass it as classString

<div class="field-character-count test[asd, 123, hello]"></div>

and the "className" will represent "test"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 360

Answers (1)

ipr101
ipr101

Reputation: 24236

I think you need to escape the backslashes inside the search string -

var regex = new RegExp(className+"\\[(.*?)\\]");

Upvotes: 4

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