291175 - exec method of regular expressions don't return the same result everytime executed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98409

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marinus Gooijer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Adding /g modifier in a regular expression makes that when evaluating returns
different result (true/false) everytime executed. First time works ok, second
time the match fail. Another time works, another time fails ....
If page refreshed the problem doesn't appears.

Javascript Code pasted :
var sCode = 'Q2863008E';
var regular =/^[ABCDEFGHKLMNPQS, 0-9]{1}[0-9]{7}[A-J]{1}$/gi;
if (!regular.test(sCode)) {
    alert("wrong");
}

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create html page with javascript code
2.execute javascript code
3.

Actual Results:  
If page is not refreshed the script returns different result everytime executed

Expected Results:  
with the code avobe everytime true

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98409 ***