Can anyone explain me the following piece of code
sampleQuery.replace(new RegExp("("+query+")","ig")
What is this “ig” stands for?
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iand thegare flags used with Regular Expressions:g– ‘global‘ matching – ie. gets all matches (the default behaviour is to stop after one match is found. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_regexp_g.aspi– makes the matches case-insensitive. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_regexp_i.asphth.