Any JS Regex expert that could help me return true if the word is only an abbreviation or else false?
Tried this regex.
/([a-z]{1}.)/gi
But it also returns true for strings like.
A..A.BB.BA..Greg D. Bot
I’m trying to formulate a regex that could only return true for the following:
A.B.A.B.C.A.B.C.D.
And so on..
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Answer
Dubious definitions of what counts as an abbreviation aside, the rules are need are:
- Anchored to start of string
- Anchored to end of string
- Matches a exactly 1 letter followed by a period any one or more times
So:
/^([a-z].)+$/i
There’s no need for it to be global (because you want the entire string to match, not to find matches anywhere inside a string), and there’s no need to say {1} because that is the default.