You read the title and know it, I find them super similar in their usecases.
not really
match is a string method
test is a regex method
match returns an array
test returns a boolean
match is used to extract the matched pattern
test check if the pattern is in the string or not
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Hey there,
Regex.test(string) returns a boolean (true/false) value if the string contains a match for the regular expression.
/hello/.test("hello world") returns true.
String.match(regex) (note that this one is backwards) returns an array of matches.
"Hello hello hELLO".match(/hello/i)returns ["Hello", "hello", "hELLO"].
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