Closed Bug 1360352 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

String.match fails when regex String or RegExp(String) passed

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
53 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jmichae3, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170413192749

Steps to reproduce:

"abcd1234".match(RegExp("/1234/"))


Actual results:

"abcd1234".match("/1234/")
null
"abcd1234".match(/1234/)
Array [ "1234" ]
"abcd1234".match(RegExp("/1234/"))
null


Expected results:

all should have worked, I had thought. at least the last one! only middle one worked.
you're misunderstanding the RegExp syntax and the pattern syntax.
leading and trailing slashes are not part of pattern, and you shouldn't pass it to RegExp constructor.

> "abcd1234".match("/1234/")

when you pass string to String#match, RegExp is created internally with the passed pattern.
so, in this case too, you shouldn't pass "/" there.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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