gricha2380
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6 years ago Current promising solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295657/return-positions-of-a-regex-match-in-javascript
Placing contents into a while loop has presented a few challenges though. At first my code was caught in infinite loop when invoked by removeListener(). After noting the issue didn't happen when matchEnemies() is called by processCards() I realized it was caused by the function returning a blank string, so I put a conditional check for that.
It now almost works. The current remaining problem is with optional quantifier. When using that it returns no matches, although in reality the match result should be identical to no quantifier. E.g.: /[a-e]?/.exec("hello world") currently returns "", whereas the expected output is "ed".
The current problem is
matchEnemies()returns an array of matched characters but does not show where they fall in the parent string. The existing code performs a forEach and looks only for character matches. This is inaccurate and can lead to false positives and is not suited for complex string matching. The goal is to find away to return the index range along with each regex match.