Unexpected results: Regular Expressions - Specify Upper and Lower Number of Matches

[10high]

Tell us what’s happening:
I’m trying to wrap my head around regex by experimenting in the challenges with alternative ways to solve them, often without much success. So, I compared the results from freeCode Camp against the results I get on the website regex101 (set to JavaScript) - with different outcomes.

The code below matches all test strings as I would expect on regex101 but fails on freeCodeCamp. I would like know why. Does anyone know why? ~Thanks!

Your code so far

let ohStr = "Ohhh no";
let ohRegex = /\b(?:oh{3,6})\b/ig; // Change this line
let result = ohRegex.test(ohStr);

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Challenge: Regular Expressions - Specify Upper and Lower Number of Matches

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[ilenia]

Your regex doesn’t match “Ohhhh no”, it matches only “Ohhhh”

[10high]

Thanks for answering.
Yes, it only matches “Ohhhh”, but shouldn’t it return true if that’s what I’m testing for and that pattern exists in the string?
(Sorry, I feel like I’m becoming more confused and not less confused as I go along with regex).

[10high]

Sorry, scrap that. Brain fart. It does return true when I console log it - but obviously free Code Camp is performing different tests in the background. I feel a little silly …

[ilenia]

Yeah, it’s using match to test. You can fix that by adding a few more characters to your regex