JS: String Methods for RegExp

RegExp is used for matching text patterns.

There are 2 ways to use RegExp in JavaScript:

• String.prototype methods for regex.
• RegExp.prototype methods. [see JS: RegExp.prototype]

Following are string methods for regex.

String.prototype.search

Get the index of first char of matched string.

[see JS: String.prototoype.search]

String.prototype.match

Get a array of captured groups, or, get array of all occurrences.

[see JS: String.prototoype.match]

String.prototype.replace

Get a new string.

[see JS: String.prototoype.replace]