Question

It’s my first time using Java Script….

What does this do?

var INTEGER_SINGLE = /\d+/;

What does the forward slashes tell you? How about the backslash? d means for digit?

Thanks!

Answer 1

That creates a regular expression that matches one or more digits.

Anything inside / / is a regular expression. \d matches a digit, and + is the positive closure, which means one or more.

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Having said that, depending on what this regex is supposed to do, you may want to change it to:

var INTEGER_SINGLE = /^\d+$/;

^ matches the beginning of the string, and $ the end. The end result would be that any strings you try to match against the regex would have to satisfy it in the string’s entirety.

var INTEGER_SINGLE = /^\d+$/;

console.log(INTEGER_SINGLE.test(12));    //true
console.log(INTEGER_SINGLE.test(12.5));  //false

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Of course if the regex is supposed to only match a single integer anywhere in the string, then of course it’s perfect just the way it is.