Closed Bug 1359860 Opened 7 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Make /W special character regex more clear

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: JavaScript, defect, P5)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
JavaScript
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: james-barrett, Unassigned)

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Details

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

First time contributor, so correct me if I am wrong!

I think that the '\W' special character should note that this does NOT include the underscore.

For example: 
var str = "_james" 
if (str[0].search(/\W/) !== -1) - I expected this to return true however it didn't. I needed to add '|| str[i] === "_"' to the conditional.

Could this be mentioned in the docs for clarity?

Thanks.
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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