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Use Regular Expressions to Test a String

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--description--

As a reminder, this project is being built upon the following starter project cloned from <a href="https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-mochachai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">GitHub</a>.

match() asserts that the actual value matches the second argument regular expression.

--instructions--

Within tests/1_unit-tests.js under the test labeled #15 in the Strings suite, change each assert to either assert.match or assert.notMatch to make the test pass (should evaluate to true). Do not alter the arguments passed to the asserts.

--hints--

All tests should pass.

js
const response = await fetch(code + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14');
if (!response.ok) {
  throw Error(await response.text());
}
const data = await response.json();
assert.equal(data.state, 'passed');

You should choose the correct method for the first assertion - match vs. notMatch.

js
const response = await fetch(code + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14');
if (!response.ok) {
  throw Error(await response.text());
}
const data = await response.json();
assert.equal(
  data.assertions[0].method,
  'match',
  "'# name:John Doe, age:35' matches the regex"
);

You should choose the correct method for the second assertion - match vs. notMatch.

js
const response = await fetch(code + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14');
if (!response.ok) {
  throw Error(await response.text());
}
const data = await response.json();
assert.equal(
  data.assertions[1].method,
  'notMatch',
  "'# name:Paul Smith III, age:twenty-four' does not match the regex (the age must be numeric)"
);