Regular Expressions: Positive and Negative Lookahead

Hi,

For the following question:
" Use lookaheads in the pwRegex to match passwords that are greater than 5 characters long, and have two consecutive digits."

Why did my code /(?=\w{6,})(?=\d{2})/ not work.

But /(?=\w{6,})(?=\w*\d{2})/ does work…

I don’t understand why the \w* makes a difference???

Thanks!

I keep linking to my old explanation, but I’m too tired to explain it again, so you get the link :slight_smile:

I’m sorry! I did make an attempt to look for a similar answer.

Thank you for this!

No need to apologize. It’s not always easy to search and find what you are looking for.

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