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  1. Explain the uses of caret (^) in regex - The freeCodeCamp Forum

    Aug 28, 2018 · For example: /^([aeiouy])(.)/ indicates a string starting with a single vowel (the first capture group is a single vowel), followed by any single character (the second capture group is …

  2. Regex to match string containing two words in any order

    Dec 16, 2019 · Regex to match string containing two words in any order JackEdwardLyons December 16, 2019, 10:05pm 1

  3. Difference between /\w/ and /\w+/ ( Regex )? - JavaScript - The ...

    Feb 11, 2020 · Tell us what’s happening: Can someone tell me the difference between /\w/ and /\w+/ ? the “+” operator in regex is used for identifying repeating characters I am confused by …

  4. Build a RegEx Sandbox - JavaScript - The freeCodeCamp Forum

    May 13, 2025 · Tell us what’s happening: I can’t understand why the task is failing. My code works fine, it does everything as it is suppose to do. But still failing 2 tasks. When the inner HTML of …

  5. Replacing space and comma from a string using regex

    Oct 17, 2020 · Your regex doesn’t work because first, you’ve put the regex into quotes, so you’re checking if your string contains this substring: '/^[\s,]$/g'. It’s not evaluated as a regex …

  6. Regex for Boolean - JavaScript - The freeCodeCamp Forum

    Mar 25, 2023 · This was for my Phone number validator project. I knew that the regex exp would get the answers quicker. I struggled joining the Boolean along with. I was either getting the …

  7. How do i pass a variable in regex - The freeCodeCamp Forum

    Jan 9, 2020 · Anytime you use a special meta character like \s or \w or \b, you must add the extra backslash for the string version of the regular expression to work with RegExp. In regular …

  8. Regex issue - "unbalanced parenthesis at position" - Python - The ...

    Dec 7, 2021 · Dear All, Hope everyone of you are having a great day. my line of coding is below ( and this worked without any issue ), checker = re.compile(".*s$") but now I am dealing with a …

  9. Matching a list of regex to every string in a list one by one

    Nov 2, 2022 · I have a list of strings and a list of regex patterns. What I want to achieve is that for every string in the list, I want to try matching the patterns found in the regex list that I have …

  10. Build a RegEx Sandbox - JavaScript - The freeCodeCamp Forum

    Apr 6, 2025 · I would recommend that you start by creating an empty string (flagString). Then “i” could be added to a string if case-insensitive is true and “g” if global is true, and just return that …