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I am writing a JS parser, and am wondering how to differentiate between a regular expression (/lookup/g) and simple division (bar/baz/g). What are the rules that JavaScript uses to identify regular expressions?
You want to check out Section 7.8.5 in the ECMA spec (the annotated version is up-to-date currently, but always check the latest PDF from the ECMA).
Remember too that a JavaScript regex can not be empty.
//is always the start of a single line comment. It’s also worth mentioning that a semicolon must never be inserted before a regex literal.Tangential, an empty JavaScript regex looks like
/(?:)/.Further discussion.