Lodash.js – isRegExp() function
By Bartłomiej Bartel
A simple Lodash.js example of the isRegExp() function, which checks if the variable is a regular expression.
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<meta name="description" content="Tizen example"/>
<title>Tizen lodash.js example</title>
<script src="js/lodash.min.js"></script>
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<div id="first">
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<br>
<div id="second">
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<script>
var firstDiv = document.getElementById('first');
var secondDiv = document.getElementById('second');
var firstValue = /^[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+(\.[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+)*@([a-z0-9_][-a-z0-9_]*(\.[-a-z0-9_]+)*\.(aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|mil|museum|name|net|org|pro|travel|mobi|[a-z][a-z])|([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}))(:[0-9]{1,5})?$/i;
firstDiv.innerHTML = "Having a string with an e-mail verification regular expression:<br><br>";
firstDiv.innerHTML += firstValue;
var result = _.isRegExp(firstValue);
secondDiv.innerHTML = "...we will check if the provided value is really a regular expression... and we get:<br><br>";
secondDiv.innerHTML += result;
</script>
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