Determining whether values can potentially match a regular expression, given more input
- by Andreas Grech
I am currently writing an application in JavaScript where I'm matching input to regular expressions, but I also need to find a way how to match strings to parts of the regular expressions.
For example:
var invalid = "x",
potentially = "g",
valid = "ggg",
gReg = /^ggg$/;
gReg.test(invalid); //returns false (correct)
gReg.test(valid);…