Is there a string.prototype.matchAll ES5 safe alternative?

Asked Nov 28 '19 at 18:10

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Just found out that matchAll is not supported by many browser versions.

Is there an ES5 safe alternative for the string.prototype.matchAll method?

const regexp = /(?:\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\))|([^[]+)/g;
const matchedElements = Array.from(value.matchAll(regexp));

asked Nov 28 '19 at 18:10

cbdeveloper

`.matchAll` is just syntactic sugar, use `exec` in a loop to get all matches you need. – Wiktor Stribiżew Nov 28 '19 at 18:12
Nice! I will do that. Thank you! – cbdeveloper Nov 28 '19 at 18:13
@WiktorStribiżew apparently it's a bit more than syntactic sugar as it doesn't touch the `.lastIndex`, but normally that shouldn't matter. – Bergi Nov 28 '19 at 20:30

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