On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:44 AM, StevenLevithan wrote: > (I emailed this to the list last night, but it doesn't seem to have > gone > through. Sorry if this becomes a dupe.)
(I don't see a moderator request based on your sending from a different e-mail address -- I don't see a dup either.) > Given the above rule, my questions are: > > 1. Does ES4's /y (sticky) modifier have any meaning if the /g (global) > modifier is not also set? Yes. > 2. What about with String.prototype.split and > String.prototype.search, which > ignore the values of regexp.global and regexp.lastIndex? The /y flag makes unanchored regexps match or fail at the current position in the target string, period. Where the current position is may depend on /g and other things, but /y is independent (lower- level) than these considerations. > I'm working on code which brings some of the ES4 regex features > (including > /y) to current browsers, but I'm not sure which way to go on these > points. Firefox 3 is in beta release now and has supported /y since an early alpha. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371932. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
