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Foil 79 RegExp Object

From Overview of Basic JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 An RegExp object (new in JavaScript 1.2) corresponds to a regular expression
2 There are two syntaxes: regexp = new RegExp( "pattern" ); regexp = /pattern/;
3 The latter "compiles" the pattern and is more efficient
4 The RegExp object has three methods: compile(), exec(), and test()
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