Right. That’s why I was suggesting wrapping the call in a try/catch and
returning null/-1 from the catch.
Additionally, the array returned from String.match() is a non-standard one. It
has input and index properties.
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 8:52 PM, yishayw <yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think there would still be a difference between flash and js because the
> flash implementation (counter to AS3 documentation) always returns null when
> an invalid regex is passed as a string. So according to your suggested
> implementation for
>
> Var s: String = "m?o";
> Var a:Array = s.match("?")
>
> a is null in flash but ["?"] in JS.
>
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