One small thing

JavaScript
#1

Tell us what’s happening:
I don’t quite understand the use of the | symbol. It means “or”…but in this imstance aren’t we replacing the whitespace from BOTH sides of the “Hello, World” text? Wouldn’t | indicate replacing one OR the other?

Your code so far


let hello = "   Hello, World!  ";
let wsRegex = /^\s+|\s+$/g; // Change this line
let result = hello.replace(wsRegex, ""); // Change this line
console.log(result)

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Challenge: Remove Whitespace from Start and End

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#2

Hello~!

The .replace() method, when used with a regex, replaces all parts of the string that match the regex. Your regex checks for whitespace at the beginning of a string OR whitespace at the end of the string, allowing both to match.

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#3

Hmm. OK that’s odd…no mention of that so far but I will accept it and move on. Thank you for helping.

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#4

the g means that the regex should get all substrings that match it

if you have “all spaces at the beginning or all spaces at the end”, it will match first all spaces at the beginning, then it keep searching and it finds also the spaces at the end that match the pattern

like if you have /(ab)|(ba)/g, and you have a string like “abruptly the ball”, it will match, because there is the g, both the “ab” at the start of abruptly and the “ba” at the start of ball

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#5

Seems counter-intuitive but I’m brand new at this so I’ll just accept it. Thank you once again.