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Javascript | String Methods

Shubham Tiwari on March 07, 2024

Hello my beginner frontend developers, today i will be showing Javascript string methods in 2 different categories - Important and rarely used. Le...
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lionel-rowe • • Edited 
// 2. search - true - search for the passed string and returns boolean
const stringSearch = str.search("World");

No, it searches for the passed regex and returns a number (the index of the match). If a string is passed, it's coerced to a regex before searching.

'abc.'.search('.') // 0
'$abc'.search('$') // 4
'[abc'.search('[') // throws Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression
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Shubham Tiwari •

Yeah true, thanks for covering these cases

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Noman Abid •

Please correct your 5th point

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Shubham Tiwari •

Thanks for the correction bro 🫡