RegexpGarden

Garden Text Representation

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let garden = [

	"Rose", "Primrose", "Rice", "Roscoea",

	"Rosemary", "Christmas Rose"

];

Code Editor
Log

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for  (const plant of garden) {

if (plant.match(//i) {

water(plant);

Lesson 5 / 42

Lesson task •

Water all the plants, starting with "rose"

Start of string

^

Points to the start of string. The pattern after it will be applied only to the beginning of the string, but not to the other parts

By default, a regular expression looks for a substring matching the pattern at any place of the string. You can restrict the search to the substrings that includes the starting of the string by using ^:

console.log(!!"foo bar".match(/^foo/)) // true

console.log(!!"bar foo".match(/^foo/)) // false

If you need to match "^" literally than you have to escape it with backslash:

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console.log(!!"^foo".match(/\^foo/)) // true

console.log(!!"^foo".match(/^foo/)) // false

console.log(!!"^foo".match(/^\^foo/)) // true

console.log(!!"foo^".match(/foo\^/)) // true

console.log(!!"foo^".match(/foo^/)) // false