I want to use JavaScript (can be with jQuery) to do some client-side validation to check whether a string matches the regex:
^([a-z0-9]{5,})$
Ideally it would be an expression that returned true or false.
I'm a JavaScript newbie, does match()
do what I need? It seems to check whether part of a string matches a regex, not the whole thing.
Best Answer
Use
regex.test()
if all you want is a boolean result:...and you could remove the
()
from your regexp since you've no need for a capture.