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JavaScript

Posted by Noah Schade
Noah Schade
17,694 Points

I'm trying to store the names starting with a capital 'S' into an array and log it out to the console.

I would like to do it using a regular expression. Here is my code that does not work.

const names = ['Selma', 'Ted', 'Mike', 'Sam', 'Sharon', 'Marvin'];

const sNames = [];

names.forEach(name => {
    if(name === /^S\w*$/){
        sNames.push(name);
    }
});

console.log(sNames);

// Result should be: ['Selma', 'Sam', 'Sharon'];

2 Answers

Bhavesh Hirani
Bhavesh Hirani
7,381 Points

The Regex pattern should be ^S\w and use the match function instead of ===.

if(name.match(/^S\w/)){
    sNames.push(name);
}
Noah Schade
Noah Schade
17,694 Points
Noah Schade
Noah Schade
17,694 Points

Thank you for your help Bhavesh!