Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 35

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I was trying to connect the second non-capturing group and everything prints out in the console but the code still doesn’t pass . I’m really stuck hear and I need your help to complete this course in this final section.

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <header class="main-text">
      <h1 class="title">Is this Spam?</h1>
      <p class="description">
        Enter a phrase to check if it would be marked as spam or not.
      </p>
    </header>

    <main>
      <label class="message-label" for="message-input">Message: </label>
      <textarea
        placeholder="Enter message here"
        value=""
        type="text"
        name="message"
        id="message-input"
        rows="10"
        cols="40"
      ></textarea>
      <button class="btn" id="check-message-btn" type="button">
        Check message
      </button>
      <p id="result"></p>
    </main>

    <footer class="footer">&copy; freeCodeCamp</footer>
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: script.js */
const messageInput = document.getElementById("message-input");
const result = document.getElementById("result");
const checkMessageButton = document.getElementById("check-message-btn");

const helpRegex = /please help|assist me/i;
const dollarRegex = /[0-9]+ (?:hundred|thousand|million|billion)? dollars/i;
const freeRegex = /(?:^|\s)fr[e3][e3] m[o0]n[e3]y(?:$|\s)/i;
const stockRegex = /(?:^|\s)[s5][t7][o0][c{[(]k [a@4]l[e3]r[t7](?:$|\s)/i;

// User Editable Region

const dearRegex = /(?:\s|^)(d[3e][@a4]r\sfr[1i|]3nd|(?:my\s)?(?:dear\sfriend(?:\sNaomi)?))(?:\s|$)/i||/(?:\s|^)(d[3e][@a4]r\sfr[1i|]3nd|(?:my\s)?(?:dear\sfriend(?:\sNaomi)?))(?:\s|$)/i



// Test strings
const testStrings = [
    "dear friend",
    "d34r fr13nd",
    "d3@r fr|3nd",
    "my dear friend Naomi",
    "dear friend Naomi",
    "my dear friend",
    "non-dear friend",
    "dear friend-o"
];

// Check each test string against the pattern
testStrings.forEach(test => {
    if (dearRegex.test(test)) {
        console.log(`Match found: ${test}`);
    } else {
        console.log(`No match: ${test}`);
    }
});


// User Editable Region


const denyList = [helpRegex, dollarRegex, freeRegex, stockRegex, dearRegex];

const isSpam = (msg) => denyList.some((regex) => regex.test(msg));

checkMessageButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  if (messageInput.value === "") {
    alert("Please enter a message.");
    return;
  }

  result.textContent = isSpam(messageInput.value)
    ? "Oh no! This looks like a spam message."
    : "This message does not seem to contain any spam.";
  messageInput.value = "";
});

/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

:root {
  --dark-grey: #1b1b32;
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --golden-yellow: #fecc4c;
  --yellow: #ffcc4c;
  --gold: #feac32;
  --orange: #ffac33;
  --dark-orange: #f89808;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-grey);
  color: var(--light-grey);
}

body,
#message-input:placeholder-shown {
  text-align: center;
}

textarea {
  max-width: 90%;
}

.main-text {
  margin: 25px 0;
}

.title {
  font-size: 2.5rem;
}

.description {
  margin-top: 15px;
  font-size: 1.4rem;
}

.message-label {
  display: block;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}

#message-input:placeholder-shown,
textarea {
  font-size: 1.1rem;
}

.btn {
  display: block;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: 200px;
  margin: 10px auto;
  color: var(--dark-grey);
  background-color: var(--gold);
  background-image: linear-gradient(var(--golden-yellow), var(--orange));
  border-color: var(--gold);
  border-width: 3px;
}

.btn:hover {
  background-image: linear-gradient(var(--yellow), var(--dark-orange));
}

#result {
  font-size: 2rem;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.footer {
  margin-top: 10px;
}

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Challenge Information:

Learn Regular Expressions by Building a Spam Filter - Step 35

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I am not sure what you are trying to do here?
The instructions only asked you to update the regex so that the vowels are mapped to numbers (which you learned how to do in previous lessons?). You seem to be doing something else entirely?