JavaScript Search
search() runs a regular expression against the string and returns the index of the first match, or -1 if there is none. Think of it as includes() with regex power and a position instead of a boolean.
Syntax
str.search(regex)Examples
| Input | Arguments | Output |
|---|---|---|
| "a1b2" | "[0-9]" | 1 |
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