RegExp \p Metacharacter
Examples
let text = "Hello 😄";
let pattern = /\p{RGI_Emoji}/v;
let result = pattern.test(text);
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let text = "Hello 😄";
let pattern = /\p{RGI_Emoji}/;
let result = pattern.test(text);
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Description
The \p{Unicode Property} metacharacter matches any character with a Unicode character property.
Syntax
new RegExp("\\p{Unicode Property}","v")
or simply:
/\p{Unicode Property}/v
Note
\p and \P are only supported in Unicode-aware mode.
This means that the \u flag or the \v flag must be set.
Regular Expression Search Methods
In JavaScript, a regular expression text search, can be done with different methods.
With a pattern as a regular expression, these are the most common methods:
| Example | Description |
|---|---|
| text.match(pattern) | The String method match() |
| text.search(pattern) | The String method search() |
| pattern.exec(text) | The RexExp method exec() |
| pattern.test(text) | The RegExp method test() |
Browser Support
/\p{}/ is an ECMAScript 2018 feature.
JavaScript 2018 is supported in all modern browsers since June 2020:
| Chrome 63 | Edge 79 | Firefox 78 | Safari 12 | Opera 50 |
| Des 2017 | Jan 2020 | Jun 2020 | Sep 2018 | Jan 2018 |
