I need help with Regular Expressions: Find One or More Criminals in a Hunt

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

It may have seemed like i did nothing but i did and restetted my code because it didnt work

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let reCriminals = /./; // Change this line

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Challenge: Find One or More Criminals in a Hunt

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Hello~!

Unfortunately, by resetting your code we are now unable to see what you have tried. Can you share what regex you were trying? Maybe we can point you in the right direction. :slight_smile:

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ok i will send you the code

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this is really all i could do because i couldnt really get it
let reCriminals = /C/; // Change this line

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Hey, that’s a good start~ let’s see what happens when we run it.

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So it is correctly matching one criminal. But it needs to be able to find and match all criminals in the string.

Do you remember how to tell a RegEx to match all instances? There is a certain flag you can set… :slight_smile:

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i forget please help me im not the greatest coder

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Do you remember this lesson: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/find-more-than-the-first-match

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look at the description:

The regex /z+/ matches the letter z when it appears one or more times in a row. It would find matches in all of the following strings:

can you do the same with the letter C?

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