Regex wildcard period

JavaScript
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The solution shows /.un/ and my code is /un./ and still passes. Does the period placement matter?

Your code so far


let exampleStr = "Let's have fun with regular expressions!";
let unRegex = /un./; // Change this line
let result = unRegex.test(exampleStr);

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.82 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Match Anything with Wildcard Period

Link to the challenge:

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Yes it does. Your code passes because tests are written in such way that they only test if there is a . and if your regex matches anything (or doesn’t for the last two tests). So I’d say that tests should be updated (https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/blob/main/curriculum/challenges/english/02-javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/regular-expressions/match-anything-with-wildcard-period.md)

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Ah makes sense. Thanks!

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