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JavaScript Regular Expressions in JavaScript Validating a Form Validating a Password

Posted by Chris Adams
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Chris Adams
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,422 Points

Acknowledging online sources

Hey all,

In Joel’s course on regular expressions, he discusses how there are likely already solutions to a number of regular expression needs available online.

He provides this snippet as an example:

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).*$/

My question is about best practice in web development. To what extent should we be referencing or acknowledging the source when we take solutions we find online?

Bradley Anderson
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Bradley Anderson
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 19,647 Points

Interested in answer to this also!