Positive and Negative Lookahead helpp

JavaScript
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Need help with this challenge

Your code so far


let sampleWord = "astronaut";



let pwRegex = /(?=\w{5,})(?=[0-9]+)/; // Change this line
let result = pwRegex.test(sampleWord);

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/positive-and-negative-lookahead

3

you need 2 consecutive digits but your regex only checks that you have 1 (+ means 1 or more) …
can you think of a way to check for 2?

hint: the solution (as I recall) is very similar to the example

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/(?=\w{5,})(?=\D*\d\d)/g

i did a little thinking and i applied the code in which you have to match atleast one digit but i really cant fully understand what is going on in the second lookahead

6

the second look-ahead says:

Tell me if the string has any number of non-digit characters followed by two digit values

(\D* any number of non-digits)
(\d\d exactly two digits)

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