Regular Expressions As Functions
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
Firefox includes a non-standard JavaScript extension that makes regular expressions callable as functions. This serves as a shorthand for calling a regex's exec method. For example, in Firefox /regex/("string") is equivalent to /regex/.exec("string"). Early ECMAScript 4 proposals indicated this functionality would be added to the ES4 specification, but subsequent discussion on the ES4-discuss mailing list [...]
