How do i check if a substring matches with regex?

Question

I want to find out if my string contains a certain substring and return true if it does and false if it doesnt.

regex = /^[a-z0-9]*(TEST)+'[a-z0-9]*$/;
if(myString.contains(regex)) {
  // do something
}

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/345194/regular-expression-matching-in-jquery — mcandre, Jul 06 '10 at 17:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '10 at 17:38

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With the ^ and $ anchors, you are pretty much preventing any sub-match, because they require the entire myString to match the regex. So the first step is to remove those anchors. Then:

if (regex.test(myString)) {

answered Jul 06 '10 at 17:38

Matt

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