So I was working through the problem below and I thought I had the answer but it was saying I was wrong. When I logged a match to test what was going wrong, it suddenly worked. In the photos, the top one fails, but the bottom one passes, there’s no difference except that single console.log line.
I went back and forth a couple times trying out different thing, and it seems that I can only pass the assignment if I add a line matching any variable to userCheck (doesn’t just have to be username). I don’t have to log the match either just need to declare it. Anyone know why this would happen ? Lmk thanks.
Screenshots are hard to read on the forum. Can you post your code along with a link to the challenge.
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@vidithbalasa It looks like you changed up your tests a little bit. Although, it is hard to read. @jwilkins.oboe Had some good advice. Refer to that comment and it will be easier for us to help. Happy coding and welcome to the FreeCodeCamp forums!
Your initial code fails because of the global flag /g and how it works with test() and the lastindex property (i.e. if you remove the global flag your code will pass).
I’m honestly not 100% sure why the call to match is resetting the lastIndex property, but that’s what it looks like.
let username = "JackOfAllTrades";
let userCheck = /^[a-z]{1}\d{2,}$|^[a-z]{2}[a-z]*\d*$/gi; // Change this line
let result = userCheck.test(username);
console.log(userCheck.lastIndex) // 15
let test = "A11"
console.log(test.match(userCheck))
console.log(userCheck.lastIndex) // 0
Side note: We should maybe be resetting lastIndex before running the tests, I know we did this with different regex challenges.
