freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/06-quality-assurance/quality-assurance-and-testing-with-chai/use-regular-expressions-to-test-a-string.md

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id: 587d824d367417b2b2512c54
title: Use Regular Expressions to Test a String
challengeType: 2
forumTopicId: 301608
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## Description

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As a reminder, this project is being built upon the following starter project on <a href="https://repl.it/github/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-mochachai">Repl.it</a>, or cloned from <a href='https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-mochachai/'>GitHub</a>.

`match()` asserts that the actual value matches the second argument regular expression.

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## Instructions

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Within `tests/1_unit-tests.js` under the test labelled `#15` in the `Strings` suite, change each `assert` to either `assert.match` or `assert.notMatch` to make the test pass (should evaluate to `true`). Do not alter the arguments passed to the asserts.

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## Tests

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```yml
tests:
  - text: All tests should pass.
    testString: getUserInput => $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14').then(data => { assert.equal(data.state,'passed'); }, xhr => { throw new Error(xhr.responseText); })
  - text: You should choose the correct method for the first assertion - `match` vs. `notMatch`.
    testString: getUserInput => $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14').then(data => { assert.equal(data.assertions[0].method, 'match', '\'# name:John Doe, age:35\' matches the regex'); }, xhr => { throw new Error(xhr.responseText); })
  - text: You should choose the correct method for the second assertion - `match` vs. `notMatch`.
    testString: getUserInput => $.get(getUserInput('url') + '/_api/get-tests?type=unit&n=14').then(data => { assert.equal(data.assertions[1].method, 'notMatch', '\'# name:Paul Smith III, age:twenty-four\' does not match the regex (the age must be numeric)'); }, xhr => { throw new Error(xhr.responseText); })
```

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## Challenge Seed

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## Solution

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