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Foil 58 RegExp Objects (cont'd)

From Overview of Advanced JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
Regular Expressions for Foil 58
1 String methods have been added to JavaScript 1.2 to handle regular expressions: search( regexp ); // like test(...) match( regexp ); // like exec(...) replace( regexp, newsubstr );
2 match(...) returns an array of strings
3 The split(...) method now takes a regular expression as optional parameter: var strArray = str.split( /\s*;\s*/ );
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