Reuse Patterns Using Capture Groupz

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@myrmidonut This challenge really threw me for a loop because in the hints section of this challenge it mentions using the global “/g” to indicate that a regex will keep looking for a match I assumed that withholding the /g meant that it would stop looking once it found a exact match for the regex I wrote.

Does hint 3 make sense to you? or would using the /g only apply when using a “.match” instead of a “.test”?

freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: Reuse Patterns Using Capture Groups

Reuse Patterns Using Capture Group Hints Hint 1 Given code below: let testString = "test test test"; let reRegex = /(test)\s\1/; let result = reRegex.test(testString); result will match only test test because \1 in this example stands for the same text as most recently matched by the 1st capturing group (test). If we were to literally translate the regex, it would look something like this: let re = /(test)\s\1/; let literalRe = /test\stest/; Both re and literalRe would match the same t…