I am trying to see if my string starts with a letter or a number. I think I'm close, could anyone help me out?
if(thestring.match("/^[\pL\pN]/"))
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specifically which letters or numbers? – user3334690 May 27 '14 at 15:02
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10-9, a-z, A-Z @user3334690 – bryan May 27 '14 at 15:02
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2If you want to check for 0-9, a-z, A-Z then why don't you use `/^[0-9a-zA-Z]/`? – JJJ May 27 '14 at 15:03
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Why you are testing against Unicode characters? – Rahil Wazir May 27 '14 at 15:04
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Thank you @Juana, my problem was mainly the quotes in that `match()`. That's why I went to the unicode because I thought I was doing something wrong with the regex. – bryan May 27 '14 at 15:07
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Use:
^[A-Z0-9]
With a case-insensitive modifier:
if(thestring.match(/^[A-Z0-9]/i)) {}
\pL and \pN are PCRE shortcodes and do not work in Javascript.
Sam
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if(/^[a-z0-9]/i.test(thestring)) {
//do something
}
.test() is much more simple.
It returns just false or true, while .match() resturns null or an array.
