How can I get all groups of a regex match?
var str = "adam peter james sylvester sarah";
var regex = /what should my regex be t capture all names that has the letter a in them/
var match = regex.exec( text );
console.log(match)
What I want here is each name that has the letter a in it... I want to be able to capture several names preferably at the same time.
Is this possible?
Try my example on Rubular
var str = "adam peter james sylvester sarah";
var match = str.match(/[a-z]*a[a-z]*/gi)
console.log(match)
.match(). Here's another valid syntax: str.match(/[a-z]*a[a-z]*/gi)
Regex is probably overkill for this situation. I think it would be simpler to .split() and .indexOf() like so
var names = str.split(" ");
for ( var i=0; i < names.length; i++ ) {
if ( names[i].indexOf("a") >= 0 ) console.log(names[i]);
}